Opinion: It's been five years since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas H.S. But I still fear. [Opinion]
is a recent alumnus of the San Dieguito Union High School District, who attended Diegueno Middle School and San Dieguito Academy. He lives in Encinitas.
I don’t think I’ll ever forget how I felt on Feb. 15, 2018. It was the day after the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that took the lives of fourteen students and three staff-members. I was in eighth grade at the time. I knew school shootings, and the concept of mass shootings for that matter, were a thing. We did lockdown drills in school, I heard about them on the news, none of it was foreign. I don’t know what made my reaction to Parkland different.
I vividly remember running through scenarios in my head during my American history class. There were two doors in the room: one outside and one to a shared “quad” between all the rooms in the building. If a shooter came, my first option was to bolt out the door, jump over the small wall, and run the mile and a half back to my house as quickly as I possibly could. Option two was to barricade the outside door with desks and hide under the windows .
So what can be done? You’ve likely heard of renewing the Assault Weapons Ban. Employing universal background checks and mandatory waiting periods after purchasing guns are also gaining steam (and are widely
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