MSU students on mass shooting

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"It's something that my generation has been preparing for since elementary school. It was never a question of if, but when."   After a mass shooting at their school killed three people, these Michigan State University students had this to say ...

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00:00Multiple of our peers are dead.

00:02I could have been there.

00:03It's something that my generation has been preparing for

00:07since elementary school.

00:08It was never a question of if, but when.

00:11Today we're talking about my school,

00:13but tomorrow we could be talking about yours.

00:23My two friends came over,

00:24we were gonna watch The Bachelor

00:26and then I was gonna go study for a communications exam.

00:29But instead we spent the entire night

00:32listening to the police broadcast,

00:34listening to the news,

00:36spam texting every single class group chat,

00:39club group chat, friend group chat we have,

00:41crying, shaking,

00:45and just absolutely not knowing what's gonna happen.

00:48MSU is my family.

00:51That is my community.

00:52That's my family.

00:54And this isn't the first shooting that I've been through.

00:58I know it's not the first shooting

00:59that other people have been through.

01:01And for some, it's not even the first school shooting.

01:05And I can't even fathom

01:12how that's feeling.

01:14And if this is your first,

01:17I'm sorry that we've had to go through this at all.

01:20We're taking things as they come.

01:22We're trying to look on the bright side.

01:25We're checking in with people that we love.

01:27We're checking in with our classmates and our friends

01:29and our faculty members.

01:30But it's terrifying and it's hard.

01:36And it's absolutely atrocious

01:40that I already have to be thinking about politics here

01:43and the fact that this has happened

01:44because time and time again, we're not protected.

01:48And to think that my school,

01:50my home for the past four years,

01:52is just another bullet point on the long list

01:56of communities that have been affected by gun violence.

02:00It's,

02:03it's hard.

02:04There was a four hour, five hour period

02:07where there was just complete chaos across campus

02:12of people not knowing where the shooter was.

02:15There was false reports.

02:16And I don't think that's something

02:18that we're talking about enough

02:20because the sheer panic

02:24that each Spartan had to go through tonight was a lot.

02:31I don't want people to become desensitized to this

02:35because it is very real.

02:37And I have spent so much time thinking

02:39about when this is going to happen to me.

02:42So before I see any tweets

02:44from politicians saying thoughts and prayers,

02:47just stop right there because I don't want to hear it.

02:52I'm done.

02:54Your words don't mean unless you do something about this.

02:58As a current nursing student,

03:02I will continue to fight for gun control.

03:07When I think about my future as a nurse,

03:11I just really,

03:16really am terrified at the thought

03:19that I will have patients

03:23who will have been victims of mass shootings.

03:28They can be prevented.

03:29We can save future lives by making a change.

03:34I do not understand the people

03:36that are pushing against stopping this stuff from happening.

03:41Like if they would just help us prevent it,

03:44this wouldn't be happening.

03:46But they do literally everything in their power

03:50to not do anything about it.

03:51Do better, GOP.

03:53I am sick of this.

03:54I am tired.

03:55Gun control right now, right now.

03:59My story and my friends' and my roommate's stories

04:01are only a couple of thousands

04:04that were affected by what happened last night.

04:06But I think I can speak for most of us

04:08when I say we don't want your thoughts and your prayers.

04:12We want to mourn who we lost.

04:16And we want things to change.

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