For survivors of Covenant School shooting, nightmares persists

[Jilly_in_VA]

She saw the face of the killer who gunned down her friends. The shooter looked mean. Angry.

For weeks, the 9-year-old perched atop a set of stairs as night fell. There, inside her family’s two-story home, the girl, whose free time was once consumed by dancing and crafts, kept vigil, watching passing headlights that beamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Within days of the Covenant School shooting in late March, this survivor began an evening ritual — checking exits, searching for signs of suspicious cars, identifying hiding spots and always thinking of escape plans — on the off chance a killer tried to shoot their way into her home.

She even asked her parents to install bulletproof glass.

Before the school shooting, her mother said, she was a happy girl. Silly and funny. Delightful. Since then, she’s become more withdrawn. She lost 50% of the hearing in her left ear, a consequence of being so close to the shooter, inside the third-grade classroom that was riddled with more than 150 bullets.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2023/12/10/nashville-covenant-school-shooting-survivors-say-their-pain-remains-fresh/71604990007/

Here, and everywhere else there's been a shooting. When will it STOP?

[Srkdqltr]

1. Damned people who love guns. I don't get it.

This goes for the people who say "it's OK for me because......". We don't need guns. Don't tell me you hunt so it's OK. is meat better when you kill it? No! Think about it ... is it better when you watch it die? Then there is something wrong.