We teach our children to live life in anticipation of having a great and rewarding life. Then this happens and all the promises are dashed in a matter of minutes. Young minds are not prepared for this, nor should they be.
Parents of this generation of children seek to make childhood and high school a perfect experience. Then a gunman ends that perfect world and the witnesses still living no longer have that perfect world either.
The gun culture in the USA is out of control and it is now effecting the lives of children as they grow into adults. We know this is a problem. It has been a problem since Columbine, yet the guns sales in the USA flow like water. This has to end and the USA has to once again find it's backbone to stand against a political tide of fear facilitated by greed.
Let me make this clear. These young people are suffering from PTSD. PTSD is only thought of in circles of professionals treating veterans of war and victims of rape. Now, we are growing an entire generation of disabled young minds. This must stop.
March 24, 2019
By Hayley Miller
A second student (click here) who survived last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has apparently died by suicide, police confirmed.
The juvenile, whose name has not been released, died by an “apparent suicide” on Saturday night, Coral Springs police spokesman Tyler Reik told HuffPost. The deceased was a current student at the high school.
Detectives and the county medical examiner’s office are continuing to investigate the matter, Reik said.
The family of 19-year-old Sydney Aiello confirmed Friday that she had died by suicide after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor’s guilt after a former student opened fire on the high school last February, killing 17 people and injuring over a dozen others.
