Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens in the U.S., but much of the news coverage about it is made by and for adults.

That's why our journalism training team, student reporting labs, handed cameras to 14 student journalists from across the nation to make stories about what it's like to grow up in this generation.

Their work is part of a new documentary called Run, Hide Fight, Growing Up Under the Gun.

In this excerpt, student journalists Alexis and Brianna Schmidt talk to their classmates at Michigan State University

about what it's like to live through a mass shooting. Keep your hands up if you have experienced a lockdown drill before the age of 18,

the age of 12, and the age of 6.

Before you learn ABC, you learn how to run, hide, and fight, and that's where we've failed.

Gun violence has become tragically familiar to people like Maya Manuel, a student at Michigan State University. On February 13, 23, three students lost their lives to a gunman.

During the shooting, students received text messages from the university instructing them to run, hide, and fight.

Inside an academic building and then later at a student union.

I'm Alexis Schmidt, and I'm Brianna Schmidt.

We're twins and student journalist who started attending Michigan State a few months after the shooting.

We wanted to talk to other students about their experiences with gun violence.

How do you think that like MSU students' perception of safety, like on campus, changed?

You're trying so hard to get your degree. Trying to go back into classes was so difficult.

Every student, every janitor, I had to figure out a new way of thinking

because it was no longer, I'm listening to your experience.

It's, I am understanding your experience.

For other students like Kylie Osage, this was not their first experience

with the trauma of a mass shooting.

She was a senior at Axford High School in 2021 when a gunman

opened fire inside the school. Four students died that day, and seven others were injured,

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