Texas School Shooting Survivor: I Expected This to Happen Eventually

[DonViejo]

Among the witness reactions to a fatal shooting Friday at Santa Fe High School in southeast Texas came this particularly heartbreaking one from a student named Paige. Asked by KTRK-TV if there was “ever part of you that was like, ‘This isn’t real, this would not happen at my school,” the young girl gave a resigned chuckle and replied: “No, there wasn’t. It’s been happening everywhere. I’ve always felt it would eventually happen here, too.” She added: “I wasn’t surprised; just scared.” With at least eight dead, Friday’s shooting is now the deadliest school incident since the February 14 massacre in Parkland, Florida; and the 22nd school shooting in 2018.

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[underpants]

1. A truly sad comment

The kids expect it now

[world wide wally]

2. This is what America has become

"I wasn't surprised. Just scared"

[Kittycow]

3. Getting drafted and killed in Vietnam was the biggest threat in my day

and that was just for the boys. These poor kids today, I don't know how they live with this threat. Even the grade school kids know it could happen to them.

I'm just sick.

[uponit7771]

5. +1, school shootings are our kids Nam now

[Kittycow]

11. I never thought of it that way before. You're right.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Soon the schools that don't have a shooting will be rarities.

I am so glad I am no longer teaching. I stopped due to health reasons right after Sandy Hook and I had to hold another drill with my first graders (we had been doing drills since 1999 and Columbine).

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Yet it appears only 12 students walked out for the #NeverAgain solidarity protest at that school.

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She doesn't seem to be amongst the protesters.




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[MineralMan]

7. More will walk out now. Shit got real.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. I believe this is a highly conservative area. I'm waiting for the religious types to justify this.

[angrychair]

9. I'm surprised

This shit doesn’t happen every week in Texas to be honest

[SDJay]

10. That Brought Me To Tears.

Kids, KIDS are going to school every day with the thought of being shot in the back of their minds. And all the while, the snake oil salesmen are out there barking... and winning... dystopia is their marketplace. Ugh. It makes me so fucking angry.

I have three kids - a daughter who turns 6 on Monday and 9-month-old twin boys. Every time we see something awful like this happen, we get that much closer to moving to Canada, as my wife and daughter are dual citizens. This doesn't happen there. Why? Hmm... let's think about that one for a minute.

I don't know how I can send my kids to a place where their lives are in danger. Honestly, the thought of a shooting enters my mind every single time I walk my daughter to kindergarten.

We really have lost the plot as a nation.

[smirkymonkey]

12. This is just heartbreaking.

I have 8 nieces and nephews between the ages of 9 and 16 who go to public schools around the northeast. There are days when I feel that it is just a matter of time.

Children should not have to live in so much fear.