Sandy Hook survivors share memories ahead of graduation

[@paigecullen4095]

the middle top girl is speaking about jesse, he really did save so many of his friends that day. such a brave young boy.

[@littlepoots]

💔💔💔

[@loscru2245]

whos jesse

[@lmc2375]

​@@loscru2245Really? Imagine he was one of the kids that died that day.

[@justinsingleton6067]

Jesse Lewis screamed for his friends to run, while the gunman reloaded. He was then the next to die. WTF is wrong with us when 6 year olds are called upon to be heroes?

[@AntiMasonic93]

Yeah, it is sad Emilie Parker didn't make it.

[@dk-kx8is]

We as a nation have failed these kids, and all of those in future school shootings. I am sorry, that nothing has changed.

[@RoyalMasterpiece]

For 25 years. 😢

[@RoyalMasterpiece]

Shame on our Presidents and Governments.

[@EveryoneIsStupidButMe]

Lady just said she doesn't want your sorry's

[@nwproductions5763]

I know damn well you’re not talking about banning guns like they’re the problem 😭😂 let alone acting like bad people still won’t get ahold of guns lol. Idiot

[@PatBrooks-u6w]

Actually, plenty has changed. That scumbag in the White House pretending to be President is practically mailing invitations to all kinds of illegals. Including drug dealers and child traffickers.

[@shannonc3574]

The fact that 20 first-graders were murdered at school is literally the biggest tragedy that could ever happen. And the fact that it's happened many other times in the United States is even worse. I don't have kids yet but I don't know how I will send them off to school when the time comes.

[@maplemusic8851]

You can homeschool them; I was homeschooled from grades 9-12 and even many of my teacher colleagues have homeschooled or are homeschooling their kids.

[@user-eh2ty4mv3e]

@@maplemusic8851 not an option for many

[@pabl0sauced0]

​@@maplemusic8851 parents work and being isolated can be terrible for kids growing up

[@AntiMasonic93]

Murdered? What?

[@LordAbaddon]

​@maplemusic8851 only if you want to cripple your kids' future.

[@alli_gal]

My heart goes out to the families who won’t get to see their babies graduate 🥺💕

[@Tropicalbreeze487]

God help us

[@mgicllmgn6402]

May all those children who lives were taken away from them rest peacefully and may their families and classmates find some peace and happiness🙏🏽💐❤️‍🩹

[@j.r.3981]

​@@Tropicalbreeze487Enough with the fake religion crap. You people suck.

[@bibianaguadalupeislasherre9880]

They will never see their babies graduate from high school, going to college, falling in love, get married and starting families of their own.

[@vic5015]

Worst part is, in about 8 years or so, we're gonna be doing this all over again with the Uvalde survivors.

[@dparker4765]

That is going to be a super heavy graduation ceremony. Best wishes to all the kids.

[@sandyunderpants4376]

Yeah, they think it actually happened, which is also sad.

[@chrachrochris]

Every day of their lives is heavy

[@Jendromeda]

the ceremony is on youtube, they graduated a few days ago, the victims' names were also called out as graduates.

[@krystalpadden9852]

@@chrachrochrisOf course it is. What they’re meaning is that, the ceremony will have them think even more about the day. About how there classmates and friends should be graduating with them.

[@chrachrochris]

@@krystalpadden9852 I’m saying to us gawkers it may seem like “oh the graduation ceremony must be difficult for them,” but these kids are deeply traumatized in a way most of the rest of us may never understand. This clip is for the public, not for these kids.

[@tna9633]

i was a freshman in college studying early childhood education when this happened. i changed my major and i told myself i’d reconsider working in a classroom when change happens. it still hasn’t happened and im 30.

[@CJG1419]

I don’t blame you. It’s sickening

[@kenzierivera4696]

I’ve been scared while working in retail also, which is sad to say because it’s not the greatest accomplishment but because of the shootings in stores I’m actually terrified every time I go to work or honestly anywhere.

[@hannahroberts673]

I actually got an elementary teaching degree. I was student teaching when the Parkland shooting happened, and it was definitely one of the reasons I decided that I didn't want to be a teacher and haven't used my degree. 😕

[@lovesallanimals9948]

Like the girl said 'WE'have to make changes the Republicans are not going to do it

[@tna9633]

@@lovesallanimals9948 i agree. i was also a first year voter when this happened. i have used every opportunity to vote for change and these shootings have drastically shaped my views of the world. i am involved with organizations such as sandy hook promise and lives robbed. we have to do what we can and try not to feel defeated when our politicians do nothing to help us.

[@aggu5477]

and nothing has changed

[@MauriceOrtiz-ut8yi]

I believe that this is the third year in a row that mass gun shootings outnumber the days of perspective days.

[@MauriceOrtiz-ut8yi]

In the US.

[@mic47013]

Nope😢

[@RoyalMasterpiece]

For 25 years. 😢

[@Megan-el3kp]

@@MauriceOrtiz-ut8yi in most of the world gun violence has been a huge problem and to this day it still has been a problem

[@Same448]

I love how they mentions uvalde. Small town, small children all massacred in their classrooms where they were supposed to be safe. Everyone should notice every shooting,but I see a lot of people ignoring uvalde. And like sandy hook people are heartless and doubt the death of children. uvalde two year mark, just passed. All of these children deserved to live and deserved protection.

[@DeathChild7]

and the cops just stood around in the hallway, like it was a drill. Uvalde, so many kids could have been saved IF the cops wouldn't have stood around, like it was a drill. Kids would be alive but guess cops don't want to stop the slaughter of children, they would rather stand around in the hallway, like it's a drill.

[@johnwinchester9561]

Too bad the supreme court doesn't feel that way and has ruled multiple times that cops have no obligation to protect ANYONE

[@johnwinchester9561]

@@DeathChild7 None would have died if the officer that had the shooter in his rifle sights BEFORE ENTERING THE SCHOOL had fired. But nobody wants to talk about him...

[@DeathChild7]

@@johnwinchester9561 I don't recall hearing that, interesting. But the cops still stood around like it was a drill, waiting to be told what to do because apparently that's what you do when children are being slaughtered, you stand around, like it's a drill. Active shooter is drill terminology or at least it used to be

[@RonSafreed]

England banned guns & gunpowder in 1774 colonial America 250 years ago!!

[@sherikanelson9132]

I remember this day so vividly in college. It's making me emotional to see the survivors grow up while the other innocent babies didn't get that chance.

[@JoeBuck207]

It was tragic news.

[@badboydrd]

Same!!! I didn’t either realize this much time has passed. I’m glad they made it but it’s horrible just thinking about what they had to go through to get here

[@AntiMasonic93]

Yeah, Emilie Parker would have been a great person. It is sad she was a victim.

[@HeatherwithanH]

@Kwildcat13just stop

[@basedjakposter]

>babies lmao

[@twins4life274]

I can't believe it's been 12 years, I was 12 years old in 7th grade when this happened. Now these kids are approaching adulthood.

[@taekim2970]

It was my freshman year of high school. I found out at school the same day in my last class. My teacher saw it in her computer and was taking about it. I remembered being scared of a school shooting at my school until j graduated in 2016

[@twins4life274]

@@taekim2970 I remember my senior year in HS, it was Valentine's Day 2018, that's when the Parkland shooting happened. Our school was on edge, when that happened.

[@inglatera1910]

I was 12 in 7th grade too, I remember that day so clearly. We all stood in silence at the beginning of one of my classes when we heard the announcement over the loud speaker

[@AshleyWilliams-zs1sp]

I was a 5th grader at the time 😭

[@j4y_ig]

i was the same age as most of them when this happened

[@i.am.heather]

These teens are so incredibly resilient. Best of luck to all of them.

[@morbiddiathesis4428]

They don't care. They're just lying to get paid.

[@gnnascarfan2410]

@@morbiddiathesis4428 My younger sister was at an elementary school in 2010 when a gunman came onto campus. The only reason two girls got injured and no one died that day were construction workers nearby who tackled the shooter to the ground. Don't invalidate victims experiences when you haven't experienced this firsthand 🖕🖕🖕

[@bobm7250]

@ajbattiato8233, The real reason why Little Bill Glover destroyed downtown GoAnimate City on New Year's Eve is because CheStErCarToonZInc made him do it in his video!

[@Saltnpiper]

@@morbiddiathesis4428what..?

[@eclipsa8467]

@@morbiddiathesis4428 you're an evil lowlife and no one would miss you if you were gone

[@jennymarie2603]

I was in college and crying over how can this happen..and Obama crying. fast forward it's like it's a thing daily. nothings changed and its shameful on USA and the government haven't done ANYTHING to protect our children.

[@terrrell7798]

actually they have done everything.. the fact is the problem is not the guns.. the problem is society.. also why was the school demolished? That's actually what led to the conspiracy theories.. and I'm not talking about the one from Alex Jones..

[@Quaker-tc8ue]

Blame the gop, who would rather continue receiving monies/support from the NRA than pass gun restrictions.

[@jhasi_a]

I remember calling my mom and we cried on the phone together. And seeing that nothing has been done and this continues to happen is truly disheartening.

[@lillaurap]

​@Quaker-tc8ue amen! It's all of the GOP's fkn fault. I'm so damn tired of them all. They don't stand for anything.

[@Tiffdwm]

Obama's tears were crocodile tears.

[@ann-majellamckelvie387]

I was preparing to graduate from high school when this happened, and now they are graduating high school. I can’t believe how fast time goes. I’ll never forget that day and the heartbreak I felt for these kids.

[@zpushy633sora]

Class of 2013!!! That's so nice that you're 3 to 4 Years Older than me. I'm Class of 2016 and I was an incoming Freshman when this all happened and I just turned 15 the Following January of 2013. That's Crazy that this was Nearly 12 Years Ago.

[@hihi-ud8sz]

I just graduated last year it's so weird to think they were only a year younger than me. And how normal school shootings have become since this. Shooting drills were always part of all my years in school

[@DianeRandle-m5u]

​@@hihi-ud8szYeap I Was 15 Going on 16 in December 2012 When we heard bout that Massacre tragedy at Sandy hook at the alternative school I was at in Mississippi As a 9th grader

[@DianeRandle-m5u]

​@@hihi-ud8szAnd Crazy Thing is It was Just a Few days ago When a School Shooting Took Place at my old high school in Georgia Called Apalachee that killed 2 Students and 2 Teachers SMDH

[@hootymay6053]

I was in 8th grade. Maybe 14 at the time. Our English teacher put the tv on and we watched that day happen. I will never forget that. He wanted us to see what others are facing. I appreciate him even today for showing us. He was preparing us.

[@galaxyglow5187]

I too was an 8th grader when Sandy Hook happened. I was also 14 at the time. People hurting literal children hurts my heart.

[@maplemusic8851]

I was in 9th grade when it happened; I was 14 years old, and I remember my mother reacting to the horrifying news. She was horrified and actually nervous about my brother going to school (I was homeschooled then).

[@kaylaeatsasmr2649]

I was 13 in 8th grade 😢

[@NickleForYourThoughts]

geez, that was 12 years ago!?

[@jacoryarnett7347]

Right, I thought that feel like 7 years ago.

[@ElleJae-b9q]

Righg

[@michaelanthony3270]

11 gonna be 12 in December

[@CT-vm4gf]

Crazy.

[@debbieagyeman3595]

I can’t believe I was a kindergarten when this all took place. Those 20 kids should be my age, too🥺

[@noway377]

Same, I was around the same age as these kids when Sandy Hook happened. I remember crying when I saw it on the news because I knew it could have been my school being shot up. It's surreal seeing these kids all grown up 12 years later.

[@Melior_Traiano]

@@noway377 Now you know how it feels for us when we see 9/11 memorials. Its unreal to me that there are now entire generations who weren't alive when it happened.

[@debbieagyeman3595]

@@noway377 Tbh, I don’t even remember the day of December 14, 2012. I was only in kindergarten and didn’t find out about Sandy Hook until 6th grade.

[@jackisnthereipromise]

Jesus I can’t believe you were in kindergarten either. I was in 5th.

[@raenv19]

I was in my last year of high school. Sad nothing has changed. 😢

[@lifewithfartun3726]

I was 13 and in 8th grade when this happened, I had gotten on the bus to go home when a classmate said that someone shot up a school in Connecticut. I thought he was making a sick joke. I turned the TV on when I got home, and there it was on the bottom of the screen “20 children dead in Newtown school shooting.” I gave my parents the biggest hug that night. I am now 24, a nurse, and I recently became an aunt. There have been multiple shootings since then. And unfortunately, little has changed. After Dunblane and Port Arthur, the gun laws changed. Why can’t the U.S. do the same? Are guns that important over our kids? Wishing these sweet souls love and light for the rest of their days. May Charlotte Bacon, Catherine Hubbard, Chase Kowalski, Noah Pozner, Ana Marquez-Greene, Dylan Hockley, Daniel Barden, Jack Pinto, Jesse Lewis, Grace McConnell, Emilie Parker, James Mattioli, Avielle Richman and her father, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Madeleine Hsu, Caroline Previdi, Jessica Rekos, Benjamin Wheeler, Allison Wyatt, Rachel D’Avino, Victoria Soto, Lauren Rousseau, Dawn Hochsprung, Mary Sherlach, and Anne Marie Murphy continue to rest in perfect peace.

[@lovesallanimals9948]

The people are not going to give them up

[@maplemusic8851]

Gun laws DID change after Port Arthur and Dunblane; keep in mind that the UK already had strict gun laws well before Dunblane. Several US states such as NY, MD, and CT passed stricter laws; there HAVE been stricter laws passed since Sandy Hook.

[@DUTCHGAMERNL2]

USA gives more about guns then humans

[@lovesallanimals9948]

@maplemusic8851 I live in Connecticut and own weapons. You have a lot of people who already own them, and the guy that did stole the weapons from his mother, who already legally owned them

[@benfatai-dq9vy]

@@lovesallanimals9948go walk into the ocean with your toys, you freak.

[@OliviaRehrig]

The girl who told the story about getting told to run was talking about Jesse oh my😢that’s so sad.

[@omyxpie]

i know, immediately when she said that a victim told her to run i felt my heart sink

[@PattieM]

How do you know it was Jesse that told her to run?

[@omyxpie]

@@PattieM that’s what jesse’s know for, being a hero because he yelled at his classmates to run, saving their lives before he was shot

[@AcidCasper17]

I remember his mom telling that story. He was standing next to his beloved teacher she said & her son said to run when the shooter had to reload. So sad…

[@OliviaRehrig]

@@AcidCasper17 agreed

[@SimbaRobyn]

They are still babies 😞 I still don’t have words all these years later 💔 I am glad to see them giggling with each other & just being regular kids. A bond that can never be broken. ❤

[@basedjakposter]

they lost GEEEEEEG

[@mel6867]

Having survived the trauma and fighting for such an advocacy make them the bravest and most resilient young adults i've seen

[@ElizabethStone-TolcherJames]

I live in Australia. And right after this happened my teacher I was in year 3 at the time told us in an aged appropriate way what happened. She said how if something ever happened like that here (fortunately it never has in Australia) she would do anything to protect us. She was also pregnant at the time and had a son younger than us. She is an amazing teacher.

[@RonSafreed]

In 1774, England banned guns and gunpowder in the 13 American colonies & this led to America's independence, after a 8 year war that England almost won over America!!

[@JO-hn4vn]

​@@RonSafreedUh huh. And what does that have to do with kids being murdered by their fellow Americans while they are just trying to go to school??

[@espinoza1987]

The survivors guilt must be tremendous. They were so young, I barely remember kindergarten, to be asked about it must be traumatic to where they blocked it out or a core memory they remember to the T. They are graduating HS! I hope change does happen no child should continue to experience this

[@DianeRandle-m5u]

I Remember my Kindergarten Year Completely I Was In Pearl Mississippi back in 02-03 School Year called Pearl elementary

[@XxLovelyxMessxX]

My birthday is December 14th & I never go a birthday without sending out prayers &thoughts to the kids& families affected that day.

[@aliciaw2700]

@xxlovelymessxx9243 ❤𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔

[@Lauren-ru9nw]

i was at Newtown middle school when this happened. I remember I was in Spanish class when they put us in lockdown, we had to bunch up all the desks together in a corner in the back of the room and hide underneath them because nobody knew what was going on. I remember us being scared and not knowing if something was happening in our school. One kid in our class was looking up the news and told the class what was happening at sandy hook. He let everyone use his phone to text their parents and let them know we were okay. My brother was in the school so I was worried sick.. hours later when we were all sent home, we found out that the kid who let everyone use his phone ended up losing his brother Jesse. These children and their families, our town, does not deserve the trauma that still lives deep within us, but unfortunately, i'm not hopeful gun laws will change soon.

[@Rubybutterfly666-k6g]

Your story made me cry😢

[@Rubybutterfly666-k6g]

Your story made me cry

[@RonSafreed]

In 1774, 250 years ago, England banned guns and gunpowder in colonial America & this caused that 8 year war for independence & England almost won that war!!

[@relaxdream9626]

What gun law would have prevented this?

[@kktheonlyonestephens5097]

@@relaxdream9626there is a video proving that if just a handgun would’ve been used there is likely more survivors. Those small children didn’t stand a chance against an assault weapon, which destroys human bodies, and was previously banned 😢😢😢

[@mgreg8134]

Our children should never have to go through this.

[@shontelhorneonline]

Wow, I still think of them as babies and they are off to college. They are beautiful kids and wishing them a lifetime of peace and healing.

[@theronaldophotography4971]

People, this is what the real meaning of the word PURPOSE is...I wish these kids continued healing and the best of luck to their adulthood journey.

[@jinmiguel6884]

Hard to call them kids after what they went through.

[@GNATLife]

congrats to those kids for graduation and I hope there are able to help make an change in schools and make it safer, glad they all stay in touch

[@ElizabethWhitacre-rt7gg]

I remember this day and think about the parents whose children didn’t get to go through school and graduate. My child was in elementary school at the time of this as well. I honestly thought at the end of her school year, every year, thank god school is out for the summer and she didn’t have to go through this horror.

[@Kristen-ek9rz]

I had a first-grade son when this happened. I couldn't breathe for the parents of those little children. I wish the best for all the graduating kids and for all the families connected to that horrible day.

[@alexwilson9886]

I was still in high school when it happened. After hearing about it, I wanted to talk to my counselor. I send prayers to those that were lost that day.

[@leslierodent]

I just graduated from highschool this year and was a 1st grader in 2012. We need change now for our future kids and remember our mistakes ❤️

[@aleahboone4323]

I was good until he said the smiley faces filling the seats of there classmates that are supposed to be there, but aren't. Congratulations Graduates and Surviors. God Bless.

[@SPACE.KITTY.]

I was probably 18 or 19 when this happened and it was so shocking. This was the first time I ever saw my dad cry. I feel for all these kids and all the survivors from the near daily shootings in this country.

[@basedjakposter]

OHNONONONO YOU LOST GEEEEEEG

[@SPACE.KITTY.]

@ go do your homework. Screen times over.

[@basedjakposter]

@@SPACE.KITTY. they got rekt LOLLOLOLOL

[@insidewittsworld4620]

I was 11 years old in 5th grade when this happened and I can remember my mom’s heart just breaking while she watched the news coverage. I am now 23 and I have 3 kids of my own. I am absolutely terrified to send my oldest to first grade this year, but I don’t feel confident in myself to teach her. I wish things would change 😭

[@kae5992]

23?!!! Im still shocked that young people at ages 25 and lower are having kids. I also graduated this year and I’m turning 18 in a few weeks😭 I wanna be forever young. I’m just shocked that people have kids at a young age

[@insidewittsworld4620]

@@kae5992 yep! I had my first at 17 🥴 DO NOT RECOMMEND 🤣🤣 but it’s my life now lol. Honestly wouldn’t trade it for the world

[@DianeRandle-m5u]

​@@insidewittsworld4620Hell I'm 27 n Still no kids but that's cuz I still never had women nor Gfs before 😂 But Yeap I was 15 In 9th grade back when we heard bout that Massacre tragedy at Sandy hook At my Alternative school in Mississippi

[@firetrucksrule07]

Cant believe its already been 12 years since this. These children grow up to be what seems to soon be amazing adults. Thanks for sharing this with us. I went threw a school shooting myself, for me it was crazy and it took time to heal but its feels good to be able to talk about it for sure. Prayers for continued healing

[@TheSamjane4]

They would have all been turning 18 this year…they never got to be adults. Bless their parents with peace on this milestone year ❤

[@scoutbraxton7420]

I was 11 and in 6th grade when this happened. I'll never forget it.

[@barbielandtime8980]

The kid that told her to run was Jesse. They were in Mrs Soto and when he was reloading he told them to all run with saved 9 lives but sacrificed himself

[@merricc6911]

The online idiots better leave these kids alone! They’ve been through too much as is

[@cakerbaker9965]

I remain gutted, all these yrs later, for the parents of the children who didn’t make it… I cannot fathom losing a child and then having strangers online debating whether that child even existed… It’s like being re-traumatized…shame on every conspiracy theorist who took them back to hell every time they posted their nonsense. May they receive true karma one day…

[@sergeantmasson3669]

@merricc6911, not all the theories were wrong. You're an expert, how? You ever been to Newtown CT?

[@caseycat]

​@@sergeantmasson3669dusty Alex Jones fart

[@sergeantmasson3669]

@@caseycat WTH does Alex Jones have to do with this? You're an expert about Newtown CT, how? I used to live in that area, and I've forgotten more about it than you'll ever know. Try again, DA.

[@merricc6911]

@@cakerbaker9965 I think about those families a lot, too. It all should have stopped after Sandy Hook but nothing was done. the 3rd mass shooting in 3 years within an hour of me just happened 2 days ago: a shooter opened fire on parents/grandparents with small children cooling off at a splash pad. What a horrific fact of life in America. We have got to demand real change and elect people that will implement it.

[@EMKEN64]

My heart sinks to its lowest point watching these amazing young people… I feel so proud of them for how they’ve supported each other and survived this nightmare! I pray they are doing well…

[@oopssitsciara]

crazy that it’s been 12 years. i was 10 when sandy hook happened, i cried for weeks because i was terrified. im so happy they are doing good and continuing their lives.

[@MauriceOrtiz-ut8yi]

Hi Alex Jones, are you ever going to develop a spine and pay these people for your slander and propaganda! Pitiful!

[@Niconicoshizuko]

Exactly, I can’t believe the disgusting hatred he spewed

[@MichaelLovely-mr6oh]

​@@NiconicoshizukoFortunately his assets are being liquidated to pay the families he has slandered and defamed over the years.

[@ConGamePro]

Alex Jones needs to thank his Trump God that I didn’t have a child die that day because he would still expect me to see him.

[@NefariousEvildoer]

Alex Jones deserves to be six feet under for what he did to the Sandy Hook families. I watched a documentary filmed in 2013, one year after the shootings. One woman who lost her son was being harassed on a daily basis by Jones's cult. They were calling her, emailing her, coming to her address to harass her about her being a "paid actor" and to admit Sandy Hook was a "false flag". She said it was like being raped, over and over, after already going through the trauma of losing her son. I hope she's doing better these days.

[@thisisgettingold]

Wow. Pathetic. Putting blame on someone who used free speech to make a single claim. Instead of THE KILLER.

[@ZeeMoneyMillionaire]

I feel for you guys fr! I too was a victim of gun violence in a drive by shooting at point blank range, and now when I hear loud bangs, I get startled like all hell. Congrats on graduating!

[@otvirani]

"It just keeps happening over and over and over again."

[@arisol1011]

Honestly it's just upsetting. I watch Korean reaction channels that learn about this in the states and they r so shocked. The fact that hearing school shootings on the news now is nothing surprising anymore .... wat happened to the days when the only thing we had to worry about was a fire drill.

[@Savssmiles]

You people don’t care about inner city mass shootings.

[@certifiedvibez]

Thank god these young people are finding careers where they can make actual changes in this country. This is what next generations need to be doing.

[@mrxxbrian]

I recently drove by through my childhood schools and neighboring schools. The biggest change I noticed were how they've all transformed into prisons. Gate, fences, wiring all over. Security guards. We never had much of those back then.

[@ElizabethStone-TolcherJames]

That’s so sad. Here in Australia people can technically just walk into a school. Nothing bad ever really happens. The only issue we had once was because a dog got in the school.

[@hannajoint2002]

The elementary school I went to in my neighborhood is now all fenced around. As well as the high school I went too

[@NefariousEvildoer]

Yes, I went to visit my old high school recently (class of 2007) to drop off some posters for a fundraiser and there was gates and security cameras in front of the entrance, which definitely wasn't there when I was in school. Ironically, some students near the door let me in anyway, I hope they didn't get in trouble.

[@DianeRandle-m5u]

​@@NefariousEvildoerMy Old High School in Georgia Just had a School Shooting a Few days ago called Apalachee that killed 2 Students and 2 Teachers SMDH

[@DianeRandle-m5u]

​@@hannajoint2002I Went to elementary school in Jackson Mississippi From Years 2002-2009 and Never once had fences round or none like that cuz it's hardly no school shootings in that State

[@micosstar]

it puts me at unease that the video length is 9:11

[@ilovethes-rr7kq]

it’s so crazy. I was the same age as them and now we’re about to graduate. I remember when this happened, everyone was so excited because it was Christmas break. It was a Friday and both of my parents picked up my siblings and I because after school we still had to get more presents. All of the parents were hugging their kid so tight. Other parents were talking to each other and crying. I was so confused I’m on what was going on. My siblings were older like around 12 years old so they knew the severity of the whole thing. It was usually one parent that picked us up but it was the both of them this time. They had such sad looks on their faces. Later that night we got pizza and everyone was just silent in the pizza place and it was usually so loud. Everyone was just fixated at the tv looking at the coverage. I remember my mom and another woman with tears in their eyes. I remember this day so clearly. It was the first time I realized why we practice lockdowns. I never knew a shooting could happen in a school. It breaks my heart that no change has been made. As class of 2024, none of us shall ever forget them.❤️

[@TheMisfits7783]

MY FATHER IN LAW PASSED THAT MORNING , I LIKE TO THINK THAT HE WAS THERE TO GUIDE AND CONFORT THEM ON THIER JOURNEY

[@emxilyk]

I held myself together until I saw your comment, what a beautiful thought and a testimony to what a great person your FIL must've been.

[@irememberla6460]

We have sadly become so immune to mass shootings. How time passes

[@snowwhite2524]

Those poor kids. I hope that they are able to find peace, healing, and happiness.

[@purpletaco18]

I was a senior in high school when this happened. We were having a class Christmas party when another teacher came in and told us. It was definitely a different atmosphere after that.

[@sleepypeep2112]

Older generations failed gen z and now they’re failing gen alpha. God bless these kids

[@basedjakposter]

godless* also theryre never coming back LOL

[@kaykpegasus]

I remember this day so clearly. I will never forget. Those poor babies.

[@robertpalatsky5017]

I remember being a junior in high school wjem this happened. The thought of CHILDREN or really anyone, being murdered. It has to stop. My mom is a teacher, and I was a camp counselor for ten years. I can't even imagine if a gunman had done this in my town, killed people I knew and cared for. We need change. Dear god, Congress, DO YOUR JOB.

[@RonSafreed]

392 years (1607-1999) not much in school shootings but in the last 25 years, 'WHY'???

[@ConstanceBonn]

I’ll never forget how heartbreaking this was. ❤❤❤

[@NinaDisco]

Wow. How bittersweet. Seeing these kids now, knowing there are empty seats and grieving parents living parallel to these blossoming babies.

[@marleystired]

and you guys still don’t want gun control???

[@ngm12mnn]

Conservatives don’t.

[@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288]

60 Senators and regain the House. We can get it done. The majority of the USA population supports comprehensive federal gun safety legislation. Vote 💙 up and down the ballot. Federal legislation can close the gaps in the patchwork of state to state laws. 💙🌊💙🌊 Up and down the ballot.

[@laurac9857]

No. That's not the source of the problem

[@SCRIPTURlENT]

3 million children are exposed to school shootings and you want to say guns aren’t the problem? Then what is?

[@victoriab98]

@@laurac9857then what is? 🤔

[@pbj0815]

I hope they keep sharing and healing. Congratulations on your graduations! ✨

[@cherryphoenix1601]

Gosh time flies. Happened my senior year.(Ironically) You could tell a change had occurred with the teachers. I was in the library as the aide and the librarian had told me. You could just tell the day had changed right before we went on winter break. Went home and watched the news and cried. Prayers for everyone.😢

[@kenzierivera4696]

I was a 4th or 5th grader when this happened and I watched it on the news before school. I still remember watching it like it was yesterday and the feelings I felt at school. I can’t believe nothing has changed 12 years later. It just keeps happening and it literally hurts my soul each time I see a new one.

[@ZZpppp945]

Grew up in Newtown, mom/teacher who’s three children went to Sandy Hook School. It was such an AMAZING school. My children had graduated from SH and were in the 5/6 school on the day of the murders. We will NEVER get over it, we are never the same. It changed us forever. So proud of these students and so proud to be from Newtown❤

[@RonSafreed]

For 392 years, almost no mass school shootings 1607-1999, but mostly in the last 25 years & what is the reason of the last 25 years???

[@ZZpppp945]

I will never have an answer completely for this but I’ll give it a try. As a society we lost the notion of caring for each other. I remember when I was expecting twins and was huge . I’ll never forget this woman and her teenage son watching me struggle with bags. The woman didn’t ask her son to help me. They just watched me struggle. Back in the day, people would help each other more. Now there is so much more Violence portrayed in movies, and social media all plays a part in cultural changes. I believe school shootings became copycat murders in a culture that very much promotes violence. Other cultures are more protective of what their children are seeing for example Twitter is banned in some countries. But not here. Give young children phones, social media, expose them to violence often= new mass wave of violence against each other. I’m pretty sure there’s a reason kids weren’t killing each other in the 1950’s in schools. Society changed, that’s why there are more school shootings. (Just my thoughts)

[@SageIsBetter13]

@@RonSafreedbecause schools became much larger and back before the 2000s most kids just went to small schools with only a few kids.

[@glowsuds]

What an amazing group of young people.

[@monicawilliams7844]

I was into my fourth year of teaching when the Sandy Hook shooting happened. And that day I decided to stay home because I had a stack of papers to grade, well, I never got to grading them as soon as I find out what’s going on. From that moment on, schools have to do hard lockdown drills. A young student of mine asked me, “What about you, where are you going to hide Mrs. Williams?” as I tell them to hide in the corner and barricade using the library shelves. I just said, “I have to protect you guys” and his eight-year old eyes got what I mean. I cried on my drive home.

[@RonSafreed]

392 years almost no mass school shootings & only in the last 25 years & why???

[@PilotInCommand777]

My heart aches for all the loss due to this senseless act. These are AMAZING kids!

[@ArdenAdams2125]

I was 9 years old when this tragedy took place, and I can remember my 4th grade teachers attempting to explain the magnitude of the event to me and my classmates. My young mind couldn't fully grasp the idea that someone could be so twisted to even think of carrying out something like that. Now, as a 21 year old heading into my senior year of college in the fall, it still shatters my heart to see that really nothing has changed, and that this kind of heinous act is so normalized. We need stricter laws on firearms, and we need to be doing more to protect students and teachers from this kind of violence.

[@RonSafreed]

Mass school shootings have occurred in the last 25 years!! Almost nothing for 392 years (1607-1999)??

[@relaxdream9626]

So how do you regulate mentally ill people

[@madrista1232]

Damn 12 years ago. I was in 8th grade and remember Elles’ interview 😢

[@debrafirestone861]

I can’t believe this is still happening

[@sydneykidney06]

I was also in first grade when this happened. Remembered we had a huge lockdown that year and looking back it might’ve been put in place after this tragedy. My heart goes out to them all.

[@BadAtTeaDude]

Sockpuppet chat gpt liar

[@katelynbendinsky5080]

So sad. I still think about these young adults as the kids they were everyday. It seems like just yesterday, and it's so strange to know they're adults now.

[@DianeRandle-m5u]

Hell yeah Ikr like That's crazy how much time Went by So Quick It's like 2012 Wasn't that long ago and I was 15 at the time

[@mollym169]

I don’t get how we still have people like Alex jones and Marjorie Taylor green who have no sympathy towards this and refuse to make ANY change to guns

[@TheBasedCanadian]

Don't forget about druggie Hunter Bidens illegal gun

[@SCRIPTURlENT]

I guess gun laws are more important than lives. That’s why nothing is being done, they want to sweep it under the rug and move on

[@lunapasquale]

Wow do your research!!! That's A lie

[@mollym169]

@@lunapasquale Alex jones literally said the shooting didn’t happen and is the cause for those families being harassed by conspiracy theorists.

[@Cb20345]

@@lunapasquale You gonna end up in the exact same hell you wish upon others.

[@Mona939.]

You'd think we would have this under control but nope nothing has changed sadly

[@valorie444]

the government hates their own citizens

[@cristinadimuro1801]

Well spoken young adults who had to grow up too fast. Proud of them.

[@Benz5469]

Hopefully the parents of the kids that passed will also get diplomas for their innocent angels posthumously.

[@mcbark3442]

I remember my mom crying when she dropped me off at school after this shooting happened. I am a senior in highschool this year. Im so scared of another tragedy. All i can do is learn and speak out and try and advocate to make schools safer. I wish these guys the absolute best in life.

[@ShinbiBelldandy]

I was pregnant with my first child when the Sandy Hook shooting happened. As a Millennial, school shootings were nothing new unfortunately, but to see it with kids so young, was soul shredding. The fact that Congress refused to do anything after this tragedy with their families present makes me hate everything.

[@RonSafreed]

In 1774, England banned guns and gunpowder in colonial America & this ended our colonial history of America with a 8 year war and England almost won that war!!

[@sillylovesongs581]

I cannot believe they are graduating high school and nothing has changed. It breaks my heart.

[@MsMOM34]

The shear impact of how time flies! I remember being 10 years old in 4th grade when this took place. Breaking news came out and every school in our district was put on lockdown! Even tho we were HOURS upon HOURS away from Connecticut, administration had to ensure the safety no matter what! My mom picked me up that day early and didn’t let me leave her sight until the next Monday at school! Terrifying time even for ppl not directly inside!!😭😭😭

[@macieholifield4312]

I remember when this happened I walked into my grandparents house and my poppy had the news on and he just grabbed me and hugged me I was in first grade and graduated last month

[@aly-marie4825]

I remember being in 6th grade coming home and seeing the news.. i cried and cried. I remember my teacher, Mr Greene, had us write a letter to the school in solidarity. Every Dec. 14th i can't help but think of those kids and those families that never got a Christmas. ❤

[@eksbocks9438]

6:36 I'm 29 years old. And I know how these kids feel. We were the first to be affected by this craziness. And I never thought they would do the same thing to Gen-Zs.

[@Notabotyo]

Lmao you don’t know how these kids feel.

[@angelothehorrorfan5013]

​@@Notabotyoyou're weird

[@Uta-xu4uf]

I had just graduated high school that year in May so I was a freshmen in college when this happened. The fact that school shooting are still happening and changes aren't being made is terrifying. I don't know how the students and staff would ever feel safe going back to school.

[@ronswansonsdog2833]

My son graduated this year, too. I remember being glued to the tv set that entire weekend in December. I’m not one for emotion when seeing stories on the news, but the dead children’s school pictures really got to me because they looked like his picture. After President Obama gave a tearful speech, I thought for sure something would finally be done about school shootings. Not only has nothing changed, but in a sick turn of events those families who lost their children were tormented by Alex Jones & his followers. I pretty much stopped believing in our political system after that.

[@Daydreamerr13]

Damn I was a freshman in hs when this happened

[@w1sh-l1st18]

same!

[@yaelfeder9042]

Me too! I remember what class I was in😢

[@goosebxmps]

i was sophomore going on junior year, so surreal so much time has passed.

[@Daydreamerr13]

@@goosebxmps literally!!

[@DianeRandle-m5u]

​@@Daydreamerr13Yeap I Was a 9th grader Also and 15 Going on 16 When that Massacre tragedy at Sandy hook Happened

[@koyreyes]

How horrible to have to relive this over and over and over.

[@jake9542]

I feel for them, I too was in first grade that fateful Friday and I too just graduated last week.

[@rebeccapendleton2079]

May they have peace and blessings always

[@iluvjohnny08]

One of the worst days in our history

[@tiaalexandria5156]

I was 19 when this happened my son was 2 months old I remember hugging my son tighter and just crying hearing about these poor kids that died that day can’t believe it’s been 12 years it is so tragic I feel so sorry for those families who lost their children my condolences to them

[@Potato33370]

No more sorry’s. This nation needs action. It's embarrassing that we haven't acted but our government doesn't truly listen to us, they listen to money.

[@HeatherwithanH]

To be fair it’s one particular side of the government. The other side does want change but keeps getting blocked.

[@olivialeigh5327]

I was in third grade when this happened, only two years older and in a nearby state. My teacher explained to us in detail what had happened and had us write letters and care packages to send to the school. Being so young it completely traumatized me just to learn about it, I've had nightmares about it happening at my school since I was 8 years old and still do now at age 20. The scarring that left me makes the survivors' trauma completely unfathomable to me, I can't imagine what they've had to go through carrying on with life after that.

[@laverite1050]

Lanza's Mother put the gun in her evil monsters son's hands. Her money bought all the weapons. She took him to the range and gave him access to all the weapons. I blame her number one.

[@relaxdream9626]

She had the rifle in a safe.Lanza got the safe open,got the rifle and murdered her first.

[@pinkponyclub97]

I was in my senior stats class 15 miles from Newtown when it happened. We had just come back from a CT HS leadership conference at Newtown High the week before and our automatic assumption was that it was the high school. We couldn't get in touch with anyone then all of our friends and those we had just met started texting us that they were okay when it was finally announced that it was at the elementary school. It was an absolutely terrible & trying time in our little part of the state but these kids have grown up so well, getting out of Newtown and seeing the world outside of their affected community will be so good for them all. Congratulations, Newtown class of 2024!

[@maxweiche4066]

I’m 22 I was in the fifth grade when this happened I remember sobbing for hours and then the following week schools really started changing how they did little things like locking the doors more often and shooting drills as apposed to weather emergency drills

[@pixie2014]

Incredibly sad our children are more mature and delveoped than our elderly and peers. I look foward to see what this generation will achieve.

[@scottg247]

12 years and not a single thing has been done to try and fortify schools it’s ridiculous

[@Savssmiles]

First reasonable comment!

[@HeatherwithanH]

Fortify schools? How about make the bang bang toys harder to get?

[@scottg247]

@@HeatherwithanHhave you personally tried buying a gun? There are procedures in place. We live in a country where guns aren’t going away, so fortify the schools seems like common sense to me

[@Savssmiles]

@@HeatherwithanH bc they will never be hard to get. Democrats don’t want that. They want law abiding citizens to be unarmed so we can’t protect ourselves.

[@idislikemacaroni]

@@scottg247 uhmmm the only reason Uvalde happened was bc the shooter was allowed to buy a gun bc Texas had JUST made it possible for 18 year olds to buy guns. So then he slaughtered children. I’d say that school shootings would be more rare if buying a gun was more difficult

[@mgicllmgn6402]

May all those children who lives were taken away from them rest peacefully and may their families and classmates find some peace and happiness🙏🏽💐❤️‍🩹

[@snakebitepellehue]

I had to read it twice because I couldn't believe how long it's been. I was a freshman in high school when this happened and now I'm 26.