#NEVER AGAIN

Texas--the state that fights against legal abortion.

The right-to-life state.

What about the students at Santa Fe High School, Texas?  Don't they have a right to life?

I am so discouraged by the shooting yesterday.

Thank you to Gabby Giffords for her message after the shooting at this school.

STATEMENT: GABRIELLE GIFFORDS REACTS TO SHOOTING AT TEXAS’ 

SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL

It is so discouraging to live in a nation that refuses to control guns, to mandate background checks on purchase, to protect human life.

But Gabby is a light in the darkness.  Support her organization, GiffordsPAC.  https://giffords.org/
It provides important information like the following:

Giffords Law Center recently released a report on the impact of gun violence against children. Among its key findings are that:

• Since Columbine alone, more than 150,000 students in at least 170 elementary, middle, and high schools have experienced school shootings.
• 91% of children in high-income countries who are killed with firearms live in the United States.

• Nearly 60% of all high school students report fears of a shooting at their school or in their community.
• Nearly 40% of children exposed to a shooting will develop PTSD.

In response to the Texas school shooting today, she writes:

“Once again today, students stood before national cameras and detailed the terror that unfolded in their school. We heard children report that they called their parents to say ‘it’s for real this time’ and that they ‘always knew this would eventually happen, it was just a matter of when.’

“I will not stand for this and neither should you. Kids should not be terrified to learn in our schools.Parents should not have to hug their children in the morning and worry about whether they’ll see them at the end of the day. We don’t have to live in a country where the politicians let this happen again and again and again.

“These students in Texas now have to reckon with the unspeakable trauma of a shooting at their school — the experience of calling their parents in a panic, hearing the shots ring out from a classroom, scrambling and running for their lives. Soon they will attend funerals for their classmates and friends.

“It’s time for America to find the courage to take on the powerful and fight for our own safety. We can’t wall ourselves off from the threat of gun violence — it doesn’t work. Nor can we simply arm ourselves against one another — that makes it more dangerous still."