1 Approximately 40% of the total Philippine population is comprised of Filipinos below 18 years of age. Kasky said, “Mitch McConnell and my sixth-grade sister now have something in common.The Philippine Development Plan for 2017-2023 highlights that children are among the most vulnerable population groups in society, including them in strategies for risk reduction and adaptive capacity strengthening. “When I see pictures going all over social media of senators and representatives in the House ducking under those chairs and hiding out in their offices… it is kind of weird seeing adults in suits doing that when I’m so used to seeing young kids doing that,” Corin told CNN. “But it was displaying to me something I already knew when it comes to control and distribution of widespread use of guns.”īoth Jaclyn Corin and Cameron Kasky, who also survived Parkland, say they feel similarly. “I’m mourning the fact that our country has become a place where our politicians have to hide in fear,” Murdock said. “In America, politicians have certain privileges.
“Politicians always mourned with their communities, but always kind of knew it wouldn’t happen to them,” Murdock told CNN after the Capitol insurrection. While Murdock’s original idea was for her and her classmates to walk out of their school on the anniversary of the Columbine school shooting, thousands of students from New England to Hawaii ended up walking out of school in protest that day. “I hope realize how much trauma high school Americans and middle school kids go through, not necessarily every single day, but more often than every other nation worldwide,” Cooley said.Īccording to Lane Murdock, who grew up in Ridgefield, Connecticut, near Sandy Hook Elementary School – where 26 students and teachers were shot and killed in 2014 – active shooter drills “were a part of everyday life as a child.”Īfter the Parkland shooting in 2018, Murdock came up with the idea for national school walkouts across the country to attract attention from lawmakers. While the lockdown ended without casualties, the experience had a lasting impact on Cooley, she says.Ĭooley was once again fearful watching the lockdown at the Capitol and sympathized with lawmakers and their families. “I was on the second floor thinking, ‘Can I jump from this window, hide in the closet?’ That’s a real reality for many teens in America because the government has failed to put policies in place to stop these shootings at our schools.” “In those moments I felt so afraid, I started texting my parents to let them know what’s going on,” Cooley described. But this time was different, since someone had a gun in the building, she said. In the year since Parkland there was a school shooting, on average, every 12 daysĬooley, who attended Rich Woods High School in Peoria, Illinois, had witnessed lockdowns before. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images Mariah Cooley was at her high school during a lockdown in winter 2018.Ĭrosses made by Greg Zanis for the victims of the Santa Fe High School shooting are seen at the high school, on in Santa Fe, Texas.
Between 20, at least 177 schools experienced a shooting, according to a CNN analysis completed in 2019. On average, CNN found that in the year following Parkland, there was a school shooting in the US every 12 days. “A real reality for many teens in America” These young people say the experience should help lawmakers understand – but they also say legislative change won’t come immediately, if at all. Young adults who grew up amid shootings and lockdown drills have shared this week that lawmakers at the Capitol on Wednesday – many of whom have resisted action on gun violence – now have experience dealing with the trauma students face. “I’m glad understand the fear and the feeling, but the situation in which caused them to feel that, it really infuriates me.” “The goal is to decrease the amount of people that experience what I experienced,” said Eastmond, who has testified before Congress twice, lobbied for legislation, and participated in last summer’s racial justice movement.
Parkland survivor details her experience during shooting PARKLAND, FL - FEBRUARY 18: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is seen on Februin Parkland, Florida.
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