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To: Donald Trump; The House of Executives
End Gun Violence; Save Lives
END GUN VIOLENCE. There have been too many instances where both kids and adults have broken into schools and injured and killed both students and teachers. The most recent most fatal ones having been Vladislav Ribnikar in 2023, Robb Elementary in 2022, and Sandy Hook in 2012. In Vladislav, 8 kids and 1 security guard got killed. Many others were injured. In Robb Elementary, 19 students and 2 teachers were killed. Many others were injured. In Sandy Hook, 20 children and 6 adults were killed. Many others were injured. Although those are the most recent and most deadly ones, believe it or not there are school shootings around the world almost EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. And who do we have to blame? Our horrible gun laws. I can speak from experience, a kid brought a gun to my school about a year ago and tried to shoot it up but was caught before he was able to. I go to a charter school. They’re supposed to be safe. SAVE THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN. SAVE THE LIVES OF ADULTS AND EDUCATORS. SAVE LIVES OF EVERYONE.
Why is this important?
School is supposed to be a safe place for children of all ages to learn. If we allow just any random person with possibly a mental illness walk into a gun and ammo store one day and decide to buy a gun to shoot up a school, how exactly is that a safe place for children to learn? Exactly. It’s not. With more and more news of school shootings that come out each year, children become more and more terrified of going to school. School for them is no longer a place of fun and learning, but rather a place of the terrifying possibility of someone breaking in and going on a rampage.