#letsnotnormalizeschoolshootings

[theredheadgoddess]

We Can’t Go Anywhere Anymore By: A 16 year old

We can’t go anywhere anymore

To the movies

To the mall

Even to school

Everywhere there is danger

Because of bad people

No, because of bad people with guns

Why must it be this way?

Why must we continue to die?

Because, they say,

Guns don’t kill people

People kill people

Why?

Because they were able to get a gun

In order to kill people

It’s a weapon of mass destruction

Yet no one will ever say that

Because, they say,

It’s our constitutional right

Well here’s the thing

Times have changed

We don’t have slavery anymore

Women can vote

And we don’t have to shoot our food in order to survive

We can go to the supermarket to get food

But wait

That’s not safe anymore

Because of people with guns

There is no simple answer to the question

What do we do now?

Where do we go from here?

It does begin though

With seeing a problem

And the problem is

Nowhere is safe anymore