Rally For Our Lives

Sophia Vazquez

People holding signs while Emma Gonzalez speaks her truth.

Sophia Vazquez, Contributer

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.