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Dozens of Arizona high-school students gathered at a downtown Phoenix coffeehouse Friday evening to launch a voter-registration effort designed to elect lawmakers who will adopt gun regulations.

The students, members of March for Our Lives Phoenix, met at Songbird Coffee and Tea House near Roosevelt Street and Third Avenue to kick off a series of voter-registration efforts.

March for Our Lives is a national effort driven in large part by high-school students and started in the outcome of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 dead on Feb. 14.

The students started the campaign to boost young voters who turn 18 — the legal voting age — to support state candidates who pledge they will work toward ending gun violence.

"We're here to register voters because we are fed up with an angry seeing fellow students die on TV, hearing about shootings weekly," said Jordan Harp, a student from Mountain View High School in Mesa.

The group is registering voters to help defeat state lawmakers who haven't listened to the group's pleas for legislation that would regulate guns, Harp said.

Wiener said the group has registered upward to 100 people so far.

"I think we've been doing a lot of things, and we just want to talk, really just have a really good conversation with our Legislature as well as our leaders and everyone who's willing to listen," Wiener said.

"We want people to understand the issue of gun violence in Arizona and in America in general," Wiener said.

By Sowmya Sangam