Cheney Orr/ReutersThe grieving parents of children who were massacred at The Covenant School in March or whose children were forced to hide as the shooter smashed their way through were among dozens of spectators that were booted out of a Tennessee subcommittee meeting about a new law that would allow for more guns on school campuses.The chaotic scene was compounded by parents bursting into tears as troopers from the Tennessee Highway Patrol forced them out of the same meeting they’d been called
As mass shootings continue to erupt through schools, malls, and entertainment venues across the country, a growing league of families have found themselves bound to one another by unfathomable grief.
As mass shootings multiply, loved ones find support in “the worst club imaginable.” One child’s parents are on a road trip to connect with others like them.
UVALDE, Texas — Manuel and Patricia Oliver had already been on the road for more than a week when they pulled their school bus bearing an American flag into a city park in Uvalde. They were unsure of just how many people would greet them on that sweltering day. Then the families started arriving. Parents, grandparents, siblings and other kin of some of the 22 people killed last year at Robb Elementary streamed into the park, embracing the Olivers and each other. So, too, did a woman who lost her
There's a new "children's book" that recently made the rounds in DC—except it's actually a book for lawmakers, penned by the mom of a 17-year-old Parkland.