"Then she told me, with the kind of blind faith only a child can have, that her teacher said she would protect them. No one and nothing prepares you for that conversation as a parent. And no matter how much I want to, I can no longer look my daughter in the eye and guarantee with 100% certainty her safety when I drop her off at school each morning."
"I remember the confusion, the disbelief and the collective sense that something had shifted in America forever. At the time, it was completely unthinkable that children could be gunned down in their school hallways. It was a tragedy. And yet, in the years since, we have seen it over and over again Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Parkland, Uvalde and too many others to name."
The Second Amendment uniquely guarantees the right to bear arms in America, coinciding with the normalization of active-shooter drills in schools. Children practice run, hide, defend routines and worry about being fastest to safety. Parents lose confidence in guaranteeing their children's safety during school drop-off. Past mass shootings like Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Parkland, and Uvalde transformed an unthinkable tragedy into a recurring reality. Fear, drills, and the expectation of being hunted have become part of the school experience. Treating gun rights as more sacred than children perpetuates this reality, yet commonsense legislation can coexist with responsible gun ownership to reduce harm.
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