the fact that I pretend to be coping, like all the other moms do too, but I think we all live in terror that some school shooter will line our kids up one day and make them beg for their lives, the fact that it’s unbearable to think of your kids having to listen to some shooter approaching their classroom, shooting other people on the way there, barging in, shooting the teacher first and then the pupils, one by one, the fact that they might even have to wait while he reloads, the fact that Dylann Roof reloaded five times when he killed those people in the church, and a five-year-old child had
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