at the vigil we had, almost 15,000 strong, our community if there is any community that can come back, parkland will come back. we are a tight knit with neighbor community. we re the type of community where we can like a family, we can squabble among ourselves internally, but we ll come together when there is outside sources. people come from all over the country to live here. you re from new jersey. football coach was from west virginia. people come here specifically, they want parkland, they want the lifestyle that parkland is, we re the typical suburban community and they want the school. people are moving here specifically to get their kid in this school. they want to be in the boundary for douglas high school and we re going to make sure that that continues. we are going to do whatever we can so that this event doesn t define douglas high school, and doesn t define parkland. it is interesting. sadly i ve been on a number of communities that have experience a school shoot
weapon. why? that s one of the questions about how we do better in these situations but this comes just five weeks after the deadly rampage in las vegas and just days after the deadly truck attack in new york city. we see a lot of death and a lot of intent to kill in this country. 92 americans have been killed and more than 500 hurt in just these three events combined. what do we do? how do we heal here? how does this community go forward? you only have about 450 here. you have about 10% of the population directly affected by this mayhem. joining us now is pastor from the neighbor community, pastor mike clements. he s with the first baptist church in floresville, texas. pastor, thank you for being with us this morning to try and provide some perspective. god forbid this were ever to affect your congregation, but what do you say even tho the
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