not accept a single donation from the the something that needs be held, the perspective responsibility to more people in here than leukemia is an epidemic that we need to face the. so people don't like the war gone control. guess what i do, and i don't understand why i could still go into store and buying a what was the one right. i know you want us to be kids, but we have more important things to do the

hard. oh, it's a beautiful place with a beautiful community. it's very friendly. it's very like going to law like it's a small town, each beautifully manicured homes and fuel for shops. people move to parkland because the schools are sent in which was i am one time. i remember looking at that building like that's a really weird building and she was like, and this was where you'll go to high school and you move out here. and we did like 3 years later on the before february 14th person was super different. i was cos president, i was a dancer, i did a lot of volunteer work. i was like,

your typical nerd. i guess the minorities tremendously. we made up big. we became citizens. we chose to raise our kids. i don't regret that. i had a normal life. i had 2 kids. i had 2 dogs had a wife. i lived in the burbs where you go to be safe and you don't ever think about gun violence. the was valentine's day. the kids were excited and i was

teaching an excellent, less than that days. it was specifically on um personality freud came up, of course we were and everyone last and everyone giggles when we talk about for it because he's so far out there and kind of cookie. and we were talking about the cycle sexual stages. and i think we were actually talking about the anal stage, which is not what you think as i cleared that on the it has to do with the toilet training. and that was explaining that the less than an electric sphincter muscle. and i put on the boards, the spelling for sphincter, and i went on explain some other stuff. and then i remember looking over at the clock, you know, just figure out a stopping point for the less than i looked over the clock. it was just after 215 and moments later i was home. oh, the and

the kids jumped from their desks and the whole class just got up and moved to the opposite side of the room. they crawled all the way to the right side of the room, and then i hid behind the desk. i got to the other side of the room. and in a moment like i still didn't know that what was happening was real. it's it's it's it's it's, it's, it's so loud to be a jail and you can sort of deal it inside your after the boom boom, just felt it is in your head. i was looking at the door like just waiting for something to happen. and i remember the glass shattering everywhere. i just

remember like my friend jake, like holding my hand like sir. i mean i was like, this is not real, it's not happening. he shot the glass and then he would stick his barrel and at an angle. and whoever he hit is wherever he hit, i really thought that we were going to die south. so the file was, it was a one booth and like the fire alarm, it was a book fire alarm on shot, shot for ya. 72 now about a 100 other people with title work, but i mean, like if i were shot put suggests by our door to barricaded, sitting there in silence while we shared gunshots. the screen i was going online. what am i going to do? it's somebody tries to get to the the

the, the preschool, the window, the high school shooting at your convenience, right now the 16, anybody in the us testing law and my girlfriend here that's a long run, right? the

2 was a last can mr. colon the right after that, i should be able to shop the number of like carrying over the desk and i just saw blood everywhere. i saw the blind bullets. i saw everything. i just didn't understand that these kids in front of me were, are shot. that doesn't, that doesn't happen, then was shot. 90 was shot and sammy was shot. and sadly we lost one of our classmates. we lost carmen, the

. 0 the we passed 2 bodies and there was like paper work and magazine vac olis and backpacks everywhere and just kept saying, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. we finally got outside looking at live pictures, there, broward county, florida where there is an active shooter and marjorie stone and douglas high school . those are students being left out of this high school about $3000.00 in the school through the around as a call for the big one is a behind is music pushing us towards a walmart. can i get a text from my daughter said there's

a shooting and then i get another one from david. what do you do when you get the call like that is what is coming in the people or what a nice big tank. so you think you always see in the military our job was to help the kids over the fence. the shooter actually escaped and that same route, better risk has been made. not long after the shooting happens, no more out of who this person is, although multiple reports pointing towards the shooter being a former student, you had tell us magazines, multiple magazines. and at this point, we believe we have won a or 15 were walking home and i saw some valentine's day teddy bears on the street, which was just horrible because like that they were supposed to be filled with love and just your happiness. and it was like taken away so quickly. the night before, when keen asked me after a basketball game, hey dad, can we stop and buy some flowers for tomorrow, for tory, his girlfriend,

providing thing saying the we got school set. okay. that i love you. he read the flowers, it said, call me i so you get told me the flowers, so i know what happened and what was that reaction? and that was the other text from one of the teachers. he said sandy. nobody's heard from fucking not this kid. not let's get put on the news and the discount was maybe 5 or 6 at that time. and i thought that was the worst that can get in there. saying 5 bodies as 7 volumes it at all i need was close by his was dead. walk him was dead. meadow was dead.

elena was dead. nicholas said, the wife, what's going on? my mom didn't want me to going out that 1st night and i felt that i had to for my sister because she was crying so much. you know, lawrence for closest friends passed away in the violence. that's why i went out there in the 1st place. my mom and dad wanted basically try and physically stopping me from going. and i basically said, hell, no, i'm going. i got my camera and i, i went the so i'm here, i'm a student journalist at some in douglas high school. and a terrible event has happened. it wasn't until the end of the night that they are confirmed like 12 bodies and the next day they confirmed all 17. and then it wasn't until a couple days later they took all the names. the

jamie was my baby girl. she'll be forever 14. told me she wasn't, she was killed. my daughter running down that hallway,

the air 15 on her back running for her life. dad is in my head every 2nd of every day. think about what these kids witness. think about what they heard. think about some of these kids who were in the same room is under chance who died and they watched their friends, paul, the, we were ronald, may by doing nothing, let that happen to them. for kids that lives through this and in our entire generation inside to look through, this combine happened 2 years before i was even born. and this has happened again and again and again and again. and again, because people continue to stick with the system and say, you know, we're going to try changing a few things and it's like, oh god, the energy pushed against us. like we need to submit to them because they're big and scary. and we have jobs to lose. we don't, we've lost our friends. what else do we have to lose?

my initial reaction was to get political either so angry. david was doing a lot of interviews because that's what he knew how to do were children. you guys are like, are the adults you need to take some action and play a role for it together. come over your politics and get something done. i was organizing because that's what i want to do is of on demand in periods of 100 students from storm and douglas high school forwarded buses, taking their fight for gun reform to the states capital 450 miles away. cameron called me over to his house and told me that he had this idea to do a large, and i was like, alright, let's do the or at that point person was the center of the world, the, the all eyes

are on us. so we had to take it and run with it people were like this isn't gonna work and it was like in the . ringback the party was fine august. 4th, 2000 is incorrect as a rest and always has to have the level of to america to day after he turn 3. the white t last varies point when it gets less, if neither one of the house. uh,

he was very, very shy that that is started changing the way he decided to face the where he came at to stay and be having a voice the at school he was well, non sure.