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Grownkid

The New Back to School Reality

Grownkid

Grownkid & Joy Coalition

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.84.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This is one of our most important episodes to date. Gun violence is something that we are really passionate about, especially because of how much it affects us. When Sandy Hook Promise reached out to us asking if we'd like to work with them, we said yes right away. We urge you to listen to the entirety of this episode, please listen to what we are saying, immerse yourself into the conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This might be our most important episode yet.

0:03.6

On December 14, 2012, 20 little kids said goodbye to their parents for the last time.

0:08.8

Their parents' quick breakfast for them for the last time.

0:11.0

Helik them for the last time and saw them alive for the last time.

0:15.0

20 kids went to their school, Sandy Hook Elementary, with the assumption that they would come

0:19.4

back home, but they never did.

0:21.4

And they wicked and disgusting act of violence, 26 people were brutally murdered.

0:27.2

26.

0:28.3

There were 94 school-gun violence incidents in 2018.

0:32.1

This year there have been 22 school shootings.

0:34.7

As these shootings become more frequent, the possibility of one happening in our school

0:38.6

becomes a real fear in our everyday lives.

0:41.4

I would be lying to you if I said I wasn't scared of school shootings.

0:44.4

I have caught myself multiple times thinking about where I would hide if a shooter came

0:48.2

on campus, and each time I enter a room, I'm so paranoid about not having a safe place

0:52.9

to hide in case my worst fear becomes a reality.

0:56.4

Honestly, I often have dreams of a shooter opening fire in my school.

1:00.7

In these dreams, I experience such an overwhelming feeling of fear.

1:04.6

I can hear the footsteps of the gunmen approaching me, knowing I have no place to hide and no

1:09.7

place to run.

1:10.8

It is only a matter of time until I would be staring into the dark, soulless eyes of the

1:16.0

shooter.

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