Animal rights. Women’s rights. LGBTQ rights. Those are the kinds of rallies I’m used to going to. Never did I think I’d be going to a rally to fight for the right not to be shot in school.

This past weekend I attended two rallies in one day. I watched mothers grieve and cry with each other and for children they didn’t even personally know.

I was confused, I didn’t know how to feel about the situation until I met this girl named Sarah. Towards the end of the mom’s demand rally which was the first rally I had attended I heard Sarah talking about her experience being in the same room as the shooter. I tried to understand why and how she was feeling this way so I tried and in my head put myself in that class room and tried to imagine what it might of been like. I then began to finally understand. Sarah was on the first floor of the freshmen building at Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, she witnessed 5 people being shot, she witnessed murder, she witnessed DEATH.