it. was lovely to see. the good students we stand together there were you know just one voice for this cause you know we're here as family we're here as friends with. you. if you do not stand by saying we need to pass commonsense gun legislation you have chosen and none of the millions of people marching in this country today will stop until they see those against us out of this because we love. since the time that i came out here. it has been six minutes and twenty seconds the

shooter has ceased shooting and will soon abandon his rifle blend in with the students as they escape and walk free for an hour before a rest fight for your lives before it's someone else's child. i was. what i wanted freshman year i didn't know many people i didn't have any friends and it wasn't until the last year freshman year that i felt at home that i felt like i actually had friends and me and it was because i picked up my camera and i brought it to school i decided to make a blog that day you know it's good you two today we're going to be doing a q. and a i axed you guys to ask me questions and. in the research

now i realized that my camera was my comfort zone it was a place for me to lay on my worries and preoccupations and just like go of everything that's when i realized that to me blogging is a way of taking care of myself. this past month i saw i saw dead body you know i went to multiple funerals and i just had to learn how to deal with that sadness it's been rough i don't like to show my wishes on camera especially i don't . it's been rough but we we don't we students are getting through it we're strong because filmmaking has this power to just influence other people i decided to video based project called stories untold so in stories i'm told we posed different videos and we mainly cover people that have experience going well and we've had the

opportunity to travel across the country and meet so many different people this is christy she's a color months survivor this is omar though god he was the first respondent at the polls shooting i was involved in one of the worse part of the us tragedies that occur you know right before your endo was a massacre where it was for those people courage bodies laid on top of each other for a lot of us suffered trauma that we want to express but we just don't have the outlet to go to. if you had a teacher with who was adept at firearms they could very well end the attack very quickly so we'll be doing the background checks will be doing a lot of different things but we'll certainly be looking at ideas like that. we've got to make sure we have an increased law enforcement presence on in all of our

schools every school so my repos would have a significant long presence in every school our top of that as our school and schools that are larger would have a bigger law enforcement presence. back when i was in elementary school or middle school i remember school was a school it's a place where i can walk around where i can feel at home where i can just be me i guess now a school starting to feel more like a prison there's so many security guards so many policemen in. the united states has been at least for the last fifty or sixty years like lobel power and a leading global power so it has to have a particular kind of brand of of conflict management ten this is it it's it's militarized but i'd never accept that argument about militarization as simply the

reason to explain why americans like done so much i think there's also a relationship to not ever having to explain oneself i think that's a part of american culture. but it's also really a part of american identity which is never to apologize. she could walk what she's lazing. good. advice. i raised two girls and single dad and i watched it with my own to our kids grow up to. you know it's hard enough now with what's going on in. my opinion democrats have been all for guns for many many years trying to do something about guns but it's in our d.n.a. and in americans they can't get it out it's impossible it's like a bad it's

a stage and not a bad stain but it's like a stain it's never going to go away we're always going to have no. it was. someone i think that it's right. that is that she teaches a moral leader training every year at least five or six teachers carry guns i want to see military with you make. me. eat in war you know you have anybody to take. exactly what they're. telling us is down the street from my

school and now we have one fire drill every month same with code red every month in code yellow every month once you go on code red you turn off the lights bring down the shade and you go high like to where like if they look in the window they can't see you like one of the walls but we had one on call back on valentine's day and then i texted my sister saying i'm on code red and she's like yeah there's a shooting at douglass and that's when i told my friends and they started freaking out because their siblings go there it's very close and they're very touchy when it comes to that subject of guns because i say you know i support them but they have to be used the right way you can't you can't use them to threaten somebody with or bring them to school to show your friends you know it's not it's not it's not a toy you're so many veterans are coming back. you know that are

very there are guards they become police officers give them a job. just because if he was served our country and he had an of part of his body blown off or shot off amputated or something he'd be a perfect candidate sit in that school inside there in the gate give him a gun and he will stop a threat before we have good parents in p.t.s.d. you know. after what they. did and that stuff covers a lot of areas. and now they have to pay attention to ten. that's also police officers go through that then everybody so there's there's ways to to to keep an eye on these people i feel and i'm sure if they if they let a police officer carry

a firearm. they could let somebody go in there a lot of more police officers or ex-military. after a traumatic event and we know that one thing that facilitates healthy coping is children feeling like they're safe and so you know i think that the idea is well meaning but on the flip side it may also inadvertently send a message that school actually isn't safe. i think for children who've experienced trauma that could be a big trigger for that and be more stressful than it's necessary. i didn't know that i had p.t.s.d. until one of the fire drills and this physics fire drill was i think the fourth one

and it happened the while that was in the same classroom scene see that i was in on february fourteenth and it brought me back completely hearing my teacher's voice having the friend that i was stuck with in the office right next to me made me think should i get up and walk or no what like what do i do i was in shock i started sweating cold i started breathing heavy and i couldn't control my my nerves that's when i realized that. that's when i realized you know like i'm not ok i need to take care of myself to. have a lot of guts more than i like to tell a lot of people you know so sometimes that's how i'm forty sometimes i'm sixty i don't let them know exactly how many i've got i could have a hundred twenty but i let them know that i have a good amount i enjoy bringing my neighbors my neighbors children my neighbors

wives and husbands out to the range so they can see and get more comfortable fight i have seventeen year old little girl since she was about seven years old i would take it to the range and we've been learning about gun since she was seven i've progressed from small bullets now she has her own they are fifteen she has her own shotguns she has her own pistols twenty two's this is what she joy is these are guns that are in the safe so we can have fun we can enjoy. guns are very important in the united states they are central to how americans think about conflict it's the way they think about mediating conflict in their popular culture and their everyday life and their respect for authority they are like what we might call fetish objects they're something that people find attractive as a way to substitute for actually trying to deal with conflict and more interpersonal

ways. guns are important to me because i want to be able to protect myself protect my family everybody that i love that's my god given right it's written down it's you know these are my rights and i want to be able to use them is my activity and put that about me and sign on this pink and purple because i like keep em purple it's my favorite gun to shoot because like i just love how smooth it shoots i really don't like a big recoil my gun so the fact that the barrel so mom makes the require a little bit smoother for me to shoot and it's fun for her to go in the tank do. need launched from which. i think my dad is

a very educated mir's and i do support like the values and everything that he says i appreciate the truth and that's why he gives me ron uncut splint no. a made these bullets. mahmoud's my grandmother well show ready to go struggle of like this. means abundance like a few weeks ago we had like a lockdown in my school and. we didn't know what was going on we're stuck in a closet for like an hour and a half by text my dad was like look we're on a code red i don't know what's happening and you know from that point all you can

do is really like hide in the corner i got a text from my daughter there's a lockdown the school there saying that somebody is running around shooting i want to go run to my car go come to my house grab my rifles grab my ammo grab my those grab my helmet and go hit the school. i mean i may not be running around the campus with a gun when i want to throw guns to the teachers or say go get my kid get a rock or should i'm coming with drug coverage and let's go there was a discussion going around couple months right after the stillman douglas shooting happened that teachers should be able to be armed and that idea was. so was i i like the idea personally but there's a lot of teachers like i said that have these democratic my sis they're like no i don't want to have a gun and then these kids are like the teachers to shoot and it's like that is such an idiotic mind.

i think the reality of gun violence and the reality of these high security schools is something that poorer kids in more violent communities have been living with for a long time and it's now that it's heading out into other neighborhoods that we're starting to talk about it more about it's something that's been a reality for lots of our kids for quite some time. miami gardens has some people refer to a murder gardens the beautiful area as you can see like a lot of trees a lot of just it's a lot of shootings so a friend died a few family members been to say it as it continues just now from us so it continues as all of us all people go wireless continue to happen without no

intention. is to be outside almost every day to find a home we just go out because everybody wonderfully football basketball want to do so in a lot of young kids really go outside unless it's the weekend because bond week is a pretty much the thing for i guess. who your head is experiencing dinosaur police saturday or have somebody in your family said hey you have been a big deal last year you know mike has got side in the whole random drive by's does go. and i think there's a lot of his head but he's doing fine now but a couple years ago it was really like a traumatic the experience for him. so how do you guys know what you say it was a drag they did with it it's harder now in that entire year he was playing basketball at the part it was just

a random mike spray shooting so out now let's talk about if your best friend had a gun and i was lucky that it's you know up and out in the open a plus i'm here with this gun so let's say you have jeremiah giovan would you feel more comfortable trying to come just by not to use a gun might not example i would try to convince the mordant communities because i could lose my life and i don't want nobody how do you feel about being outside how do you feel about going to the parks tell me a little bit of your views and how you feel about just being in the community i don't usually like to be quiet because mostly in parts you feel like you're going to be see play no one's going to do anything but always have to like be aware of your surroundings absolutely so you don't let what's going on stop you from living your best life. ok anybody else how you feel.

i don't know because i mean more because i know there's a vast i'm doing all right i'm going to back around seven states i would say i'm a standard to anybody else. thank you. in my neighborhood in people i hang around with most needy always try to make money positive you go when something goes wrong have they could fall off the wrong track get into drove drugs in america you can see at a lot you just drugs easily in inner city schools we don't worry about was going to happen mostly we have insiders and maybe a fight outside of the school that's what we look to as an oh ok now i got to survive. fred now this is my starting point so in the future is going to help me is something i want to do entrepreneurship so this is

a stepping stone to like any were. younger kids as we got to be i try to be role model to them so they can be role models and they get older to meet other people so that know no more of us as young people had to go get a shot or have a good in this or if it trauma of being alone or being afraid to do what they want to do it. every. day every. year. after the shooting all of us students came to.