TLDR: Consider donating to support this family, who have positively impacted the daughter of my friends.
Part of the reality of living in the U.S. is that gun violence is never more than a couple of degrees of separation removed from you. In my adult years two of the five higher education institutions I’ve worked for or attended experienced mass shootings. One, a year after I graduated, but at the library and within line of site where my spouse previously worked. The second, where I work currently and have been enrolled as a student.
This past Friday a family in my local area was attacked by a person using their car as a weapon and were then fired upon by the same individual while walking as pedestrians in their community. This was on the 3-year anniversary (February 13) of the shooting at my current institution of higher learning. My family has friends who work in the local Hospital that is the trauma center for our region and were involved in the response to both incidents. Today I also learned that one member of the family of victims is the classroom teacher of the daughter of some other friends who attend our local church.
We shouldn’t have to live like this. We don’t have to live like this.
