Parkland

because the seventeen blasts were horrible, but not the end of the story.

everyone looks around, counts the remaining families, and does the math

The Parkland generation was raised on lockdown drills—responding to tragedy by learning to hide better

“Please don’t pray for me. Your prayers do nothing. Show me you care in the polls.”

“Because ideas are great but without action ideas stay ideas, and children die.”

He is irrelevant, but his mental health issues are not

There were no vacant stares from the Parkland survivors. This generation had grown up on lockdown drills—and this time, they were ready.