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"Never Again" is a useless term [1]

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Date: 2023-02-14  

It’s really sad that we live in a country where when we say, “never again”, we actually mean “we will never do anything about our mass shooting problem killing our kids and young people.”

Thoughts and prayers are useless when we can’t even muster the courage to help ourselves.

For a young person like myself, I find it sad that mass shootings in this country are now a new normal. I don’t remember a time while in school where we didn’t have lockdown drills or had to listen to a presentation during study halls about how to use books, pencils, and chairs meant for learning, as weapons, how to barricade the doors, or to smash the corner of a window in order to escape the shooter.

In a country where we are supposed to lead and set an example for the rest of the world, children and young people don’t deserve to grow up wondering whether it will be the last time they say “goodbye, I love you”, to their Mom and Dad. They don’t deserve to live in this preventable cycle of abhorrent violence, wondering when their school or workplace will be next. Moreover, they don't deserve the politicians who do nothing, while bending over backwards for the NRA.

The one thing that gives me hope throughout our crisis, is the will and desire of young people to change our country. We will no longer tolerate the status quo perpetuated by the out of touch politicians put in power. Young people like myself are ready to step up and lead our country out of its troubled present, and into a bright future where no child or person has to stare down the barrel of an assault rifle, wondering whether today will be their last.

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