. >> reporter: one of the students, sara chadwick tweeted directly at the president. i don't want your condolences. prayers won't fix this but gun control will prevent it from happening again. cecilia vega, abc news, the kwhous. >>> ton the president's chief of staff john kelly tweeted this. guns don't kill people people keel o killpeople all the gun reform in the world will not stop people hell bent on committings these horrible tragedies. and these mass shootings have one thing in common. they all suffer from mental illness. well with each school shooting officials here assess what they can do to keep campuses safe. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony talked with a police chief in the north bay who takes a proactive approach. >> nobody wants to talk about in. >> napa college police chief ken arnold watched with horror as events unfolded in florida. yet another mass shooting on a school campus. but for arnold it hits close to home abbas he considers it his mission to keep something similar from happening on his campus. >> if you don't tell people what you want them to

she is sara chadwick. a student in the eleventh grade.u just tell me as much as you can and as much as you want to. i will ask you what you saw and heard today. >> i woke up this morning and never thought this is something that would happen. basically what happened was i was in my last period which was fourth period. and that is in the portable area. and at around 2:30, we heard the fire alarm go off which we thought was really strange because we already had a fire drill earlier that day, second period. but we went along with it anyway like we were supposed to. my whole class and all of the portable classes, and some classes next to the portable evacuated in the field. somewhere around 200 of us and we were all standing there waiting for direction on what to do and all of a sudden, we see tons of cop cars go to the front of our school with the sirens on and paramedics and we see cop cars coming towards up and security guards on their golf carts coming towards us that is when teachers and security guards and cops were telling us to run and

my name is sara chadwick. i'm a junior at majory stoneman douglas.sd is not only my school but my home. and on february 14th, 2018, an intruder broke into my home and robbed 17 innocent souls of a chance to impact the world. these outstanding and compassionate eagles left us too soon due to the lack of gun control in our state and country. this atrocious act not only broke the hearts of our community but broke the hearts of the entire world. we cry, we mourn, and most importantly we ask why. i have been asking that question a lot lately. i haven't gotten an answer that has satisfied me. so we came up with a solution to the answer that we would have never gotten. and it has a name. never again. because never again should a child be afraid to go to school. never again should students have to protest for their lives. never again should an innocent life be taken while trying to gain an education. and never again should i feel guilty to be alive because peter carmen scott feis, hixon, meadow, jamie, alyssa, joaquin, helena, nic, alana, carla, martin, luke

my name is sara chadwick. i'm a junior at marjory stoneman douglas.nly my school but my home. on february 14th, 2018, an intruder broke into my home and robbed 17 innocent souls of a chance to impact the world. these outstanding and compassionate eagles left us too soon due to the lack of gun control in our state and country. this atrocious act not only broke the hearts of our community but broke the hearts of the entire world. we cry, we mourn, and most importantly, we ask why. i've been asking that question a lot lately, and i haven't gotten an answer that's satisfied me. so we came up with a solution to the answer that we've never gotten. it has a name. never again. because never again should a child be afraid to go to school. never again should students have to protest for their lives. never again should an innocent life be taken while trying to gain an education. and never again should i feel guilty to be alive because peter, carmen, scott, feis, hickson, meadow, jamie, alyssa, joaquin, helena, nick, a la that, kara, martin, luke, gina, and alex