King david cemetery. Thats where i go to see my kid now. I was on the second floor in that building. Texting my mom. Texting my dad. Texting three of my brothers. That i was never going to see them again. I want to feel safe at school. You know, senior year and junior year are big years for me. When i turn my academics around, started connecting with teachers. I started actually enjoying school. And now i dont know how im ever going to step foot in that place again. Or go to a public park after school. Or be walking anywhere. I dont understand. I turned 18 the day after. Woke up to the news my best friend was gone. And i dont understand why i can still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. An ar. I was reading today that a person 20 years old walked into a store and bought an ar15 in five minutes with an expired i. D. How is it that easy . To buy this type of weapon . How do we not stop this . After columbine, after sandy hook. Im sitting with a mother that lost her son. Were going to
Fix it. Should have been one School Shooting and we should have fixed it. And im pissed. Because my daughter, im not going to see again. Shes not here. Shes not here. Shes in North Lauderdale at king david cemetery. That building. Texting my mom. Texting my dad. Texting three of my brothers. That i was never going to see them again. I want to feel safe at school. You know, senior year and junior year are big years for me. When i turn my academics around, started connecting with teachers. I started actually enjoying school. And now i dont know how im ever going to step foot in that place again. Or go to a public park after school. Or be walking anywhere. I dont understand. I turned 18 the day after. Woke up to the news my best friend was gone. And i dont understand why i can still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. An ar. I was reading today that a person 20 years old walked into a store and bought an ar15 in five minutes with an expired i. D. How is it that easy . To buy this type
It became much more than that. Were here because my daughter has no voice. She was murdered last week. And she was taken from us. Shot nine times on the third floor. All these School Shootings, it doesnt make sense. Fix it. Should have been one School Shooting and we should have fixed it. And im pissed. Because my daughter, im not going to see again. Shes not here. Shes not here. Shes in North Lauderdale at king david cemetery. Thats where i go to see my kid now. I was on the second floor in that building. Texting my mom. Texting my dad. Texting three of my brothers. That i was never going to see them again. I want to feel safe at school. You know, senior year and junior year are big years for me. When i turn my academics around, started connecting with teachers. I started actually enjoying school. And now i dont know how im ever going to step foot in that place again. Or go to a public park after school. Or be walking anywhere. I dont understand. I turned 18 the day after. Woke up to
failure of our government on every level, people are dying every day. in those early appearances, i remember the early rally in florida. it was pure anger. because they were reacting to what they had witnessed at this age. the people in the government who were voted into power are lying to us. they say that us kids don t know what we re talking about. that we re too young to understand how the government works. it s time to start doing something. these students with just such genuine emotion. faces you looked at and said, yes, our daughter, our son, we know those kids, could have been our kids. we met one kid named sam zeiff who had lost his best friend in the shooting. we saw him at the white house encounter. i turned 18 the day after, woke up to the news that my best friend was gone.
happy to have with us sam zeiff who you saw speaking at today s white house event. he is a senior at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. sam, i think i speak for everybody watching, you carried yourself with such class and dignity. i don t know how you were able to pull it off. are you ready for this fight? like it or not, millions of americans now have their hopes and dreams riding on your whole generation to push this through. what did you learn today about the president and the process? honestly, yeah we are going to win this fight. and didn t really learn much today, you know. i kind of expected i kind of expected what we were given. the president did his thing, played his game, he had his questions already ready. he already had it written that he hears us. that was kind of something.