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Seventeen people died in the Valentines Day 2018 school shooting -- and who could have foreseen that there would be another death 13 months later? This is truly heartbreaking.
Sydney Aiello, survivor of Parkland school shooting, kills herself
Aiello's mother said her daughter suffered from survivor's guilt and had recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...erself-n986266
Truly heartbreaking. Doubly so.
For the second time in a week, a Parkland student has died in an apparent suicide
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/24/us/...ide/index.html
At the beginning of this thread, I mentioned the massacre that took the lives of 24 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School -- and now we have the third school-shooting-related suicide in less than a week. Will there be more? Let's hope not.
The father of a Sandy Hook victim dies from an apparent suicide
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/25/us/...ide/index.html
A generation ago, teachers had to contend with students throwing spitballs and running in the halls. Now they have to be prepared to deal with students who bring guns to school and go on a shooting spree. Young people can no longer attend school without fearing for their life. How sad – and how scary.
Bill allowing Florida teachers to carry guns at school signed into law by Governor Rick DeSantis
https://www.al.com/news/2019/05/bill...-into-law.html
Immediately after the Parkland school shooting, survivors formed the March For Our Lives movement and have been encouraging young people to register to vote – which they are doing – and urging Congress to take action to reduce gun violence – which it does not do, because Republicans are puppets of the NRA. March For Our Lives has introduced a six-point "peace plan" with the goal of creating a safer America by ending the gun violence epidemic that claims the lives of nearly 40,000 people every year.
'We don't have to live like this': March For Our Lives unveils sweeping plan to address gun violence and strengthen democracy
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/we-...hen-democracy/