Survivors of Parkland and Columbine shootings share their outrage over Uvalde : NPR
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The tragedies at their school happened decades apart, but the two survived in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and Columbine High School hit the shootings Tuesday in their outrage.
David Hogg, a Parkland, Fla., high school shooting survivor. 2018 and Craig Nason, a survivor of the 1999 Columbine massacre, took to Twitter following news of the shot at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Both share their disgust that, even years after the shootings at their schools, no changes have been made to address mass gun violence in America.
Craig Nason was a student at Columbine, where 12 students and a teacher were killed by two gunmen. It’s one of the deadliest schools shooting incident in US history.
Nason, who now has a college-aged son, tweeted“This is America. There is no end to a steady cycle of mass gun violence that we don’t seem to want to deal with. A reality that my colleagues could not have imagined on the worst day of the year. ours in April 1999.”
This year alone, there have been 27 school shootings in the US Education week data.
And this happened only 10 days after a shoot at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, NY, claimed the lives of 10 people.
A gunman killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at Hogg’s school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, nearly 20 years later.
He tweeted“We needed to do something. We knew what we didn’t agree on. We needed to focus on what we could and do it even when we were small. No arguments or thinking and pray too. We need bipartisan action.”
Hogg helped organize March For Our Lives, a rally to demand gun control laws after his school shooting.
He continued to write his tweet cryptically, “We’ll do something. Stay tuned. I need to make some calls.”