Children and teachers should be safe in school. It is time for responsible gun safety.

Children and teachers should be safe in school. It is time for responsible gun safety.

Make your voice heard.

Tell your story in a letter to the editor (~250 words.) Caroline, a Houston teacher, wrote-

"One year, when I was teaching elementary school, we had an intruder drill while we were outside playing baseball with our students who all had varying disabilities. We just had our students practice getting low to the ground because the reality was, they wouldn’t— they couldn’t run fast enough to hide or get away. Just picture a group of 20+ students laying flat on the ground practicing “what if.”

In my high school, I have lunch duty in the cafeteria near our four self-contained classes. I stand by a row of glass windows and doors and at least once each day I think about what we would do if something like Uvalde or Buffalo happened. Where we would run. Who I would grab or try to carry.
A few years ago my colleagues and I were required to attend a “Stop the Bleed” training where we learned how to put tourniquets on each other.
Last week I rode with a student to the emergency room due to a mental health crisis. She was discharged that evening with no real care.
I love my job. I love my students (I call them my kids because they are just that, my kids). Enough is enough."

Follow her lead. Tell your story too. Tell it in the newspapers. Tell it to your friends. Call US Sentators Ted Cruz & John Cornyn, Gov Abbott and Lt Gov Dan Patrick and let them know you vote. 
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