Enough is enough.

There have been so many innocent lives lost in the past 2 years and this one has barely started. It's senseless violence. These are kids, children who have gotten their hands on weapons that they shouldn't even be able to touch. If there were better laws against such, they wouldn't be able to. 

My daughter shouldn't have to be afraid to wear light up shoes to school. She's 8. Now read that again and think about it. Light up shoes make her a target. She's never done anything to anyone that would make it okay to take her life. She's never even seen a gun up close, but she knows that light up shoes could mean that she doesn't come back home to us at the end of the day. 

This sweet innocent child has never had to understand until recently why her parents are scared for her and her friends when they step into a school building where teachers are trying their best. She doesn't know what happened in the past or what's been happening lately because we don't talk about it, and she doesn't see the news. We've shielded her from the horribleness of the world the best that we can, but the fear is still there that this may come closer to us than Nashville. Nashville where thankfully lir family no longer lives. This time only a few were killed, but it was still too many. Our children shouldn't have to live in fear. 

I've looked down the barrel of a gun. I knew the person at the other end. I had heard the stories about being afraid and of those who protected others. I had 3 little kids with me at the time. I was a kid myself. The fear of those kids outweighed my own. Their lives in that moment mattered more than mine. If I had chosen to be a teacher I would have done the same thing. I know they all have families to get back to as well, but they're doing their best. Your kids lives matter more to them than their own. 

Being a mom they don't teach you what to do if it's your child. They don't give you a book on how to raise them, or how to grieve when you lose one. We all learn that. We watch others go through it. We say it'll never happen to my child or at their school, but in truth we never know. We are afraid. Enough is enough. Something needs to be done or we'll keep losing our young ones. Someone needs to stand up and say this ends now.