A senior in high school talked about being afraid to go to school, and how horrifying it is to be downtown begging legislators to protect him — in the exact same spot his sister stood five years ago. She was a senior at the time, and she skipped school to do the same thing after a different mass shooting.
An 8-year-old girl simply asked people to vote.
But one of the speakers that stuck with me most was Maryam Abolfazli. She’d been inside legislative plaza, and she spoke about overhearing legislators saying, “I can’t do anything,” and, “This is why I homeschool my kids.” Obviously, both sentiments are infuriating. If you can’t do anything, why did you run? The other … I can’t even begin to tackle.