Students Respond with #IfIDieInASchoolShooting
There have been 22 school shootings so far this year, the most recent at Santa Fe High School in Texas just last week. In the wake of these events, the response from students across the country has become increasingly charged, and this week they again took to Twitter to express their frustrations.
Students began tweeting with the hashtag, #IfIDieInASchoolShooting, and sharing the things they would miss out on if their lives were taken too soon. The answers range from leaving their loved ones behind to never graduating college and never getting married. Almost all of them end with a plea for change.
Read some of their messages below.
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting I’ll never be able to travel to new places, learn from them, and change the mess of a gun policy we have in the United States.
- Sammy Vertucci (@agoldentrashbag) May 22, 2018
#IfIdieInASchoolShooting
i will never
- get married
- have children
- go to college
- graduate
- buy a car
- live- jenna (@idioticjenna) May 20, 2018
#IfIdieInASchoolShooting i will only become a statistic. i will never be able to go to college. my dog will always wonder where i went. i will become a hashtag. i will never be able to fight for my life again. please don’t let gun violence continue.
- presley leland (@depressedlypres) May 20, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting My 8 younger siblings will have to grow up without their oldest sister, i’ll never graduate high school or college, i’ll never get to work in dc like i’ve wanted to since i was young, i’ll never get to create change
- jaxon // #NEVERAGAIN (@jaxonomara) May 20, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting then my parents would have outlived their only child.
- Estef #DouglasStrong (@estef4change) May 20, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting
The nation will mourn only for a few weeks, then forget. Please. I don't want to be forgotten.- Rachel Myer (@RachelMyer5) May 22, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting
I will never see my sisters grow up and graduate.
I will never get to tell my family I love them one last time.
I will see the other side too soon.
If I die in a school shooting, do not let my death be silenced.Never stop protesting for what’s right- Alex ️ (@friesandcake) May 22, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting I will have died trying to shield as many of the future world-changers as possible
- Britni Burrows (@brit_burrows7) May 22, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting I won't get to become a veterinarian, go to prom, or see my best friends ever again. I won't grow up and have children of my own. I'd leave behind family and friends.
- Holden 🐰🍬 (@holdenisthatyou) May 22, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting My talents and the things I’ve worked so hard to achieve will be lost. I won’t smile again or laugh again. I won’t get to fall in love or read all the books I want to. If I die like that, I will not “Rest In Peace” until there is change.
- Luci 💎 (@RuinDarling) May 22, 2018
#IfIdieInASchoolShooting
I will not come home to my dad, and he’ll drive an hour home from work like a madman because I’m his daughter. he’ll never get to see me smile again. we’ll never go out for lunch again.
Tell my dad I love him
Tell him to fight for me
Tell him I’m sorry- mack (@MacKsBlueSky) May 22, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting I will never get to be a doctor like I have wanted since I was 4 and i will never get to be a mother
- Habiba◟̽◞̽ (@Causal_Larrying) May 22, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting i would never get to join the peace corps
- shay (@shayna_rutman) May 22, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting I'll never
-grow up
-drive a car
-go to high school
-graduate high school
-get my diploma
-go to college
-get my degree
-save lives
-become a doctor
-get married
-see my children
-see my grandchildren
-live- MilaisseeingDanandPhil (@SepticGirl14J) May 22, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting I will never sing again, and I will never go to college. I will never see my brothers or my best friend again. If I die, I want you to mail my body to the NRA with this tweet taped on my chest.
- Elsa Miller (@actuallyelsa181) May 22, 2018
Teachers are also joining the conversation.
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting it will be protecting my students who will be forever traumatized. My girls will no longer have a mother. Everyone will blame something to deflect their accountability. And the government will send their thoughts and prayers and allow it to happen again
- becky rosewell (@dakota7701) May 22, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting I’m sorry I wasn’t fast enough to save all the kids in my classroom, I’m recovering from knee surgery and keep my door locked. Please send photos of my body to every member of Congress. Tell my kids and your kids how we failed. #artteacher
- Sarah Duffy (@maguireduffy) May 22, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting please know I was protecting your children. #Teacher
- monica geller (@kersten_nd) May 22, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting I hope I saved the most kids possible #teacher #partofthejob
- Jo (@JoTrainChoo) May 21, 2018
#IfIDieInASchoolShooting this hashtag is too real. Tears stream down my face thinking of what all would be lost and how possible that is in this day and age. #teacher
- Love Real (@McClinton1984) May 20, 2018
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