To my Republican friends: Reflections from a rally after the Nashville school shooting
<p>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 — <strong>in the exact same spot his sister stood five years ago</strong>. She was a senior at the time, and she skipped school to do the same thing after a different mass shooting.</p>
<p>An 8-year-old girl simply <a href="https://ovr.govote.tn.gov/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">asked people to vote</a>.</p>
<p>But one of the speakers that stuck with me most was <a href="https://atlasproject.org/maryamabolfazli" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Maryam Abolfazli</a>. She’d been inside legislative plaza, and she spoke about overhearing legislators saying, “I can’t do anything,” and, <strong>“This is why I homeschool my kids.”</strong> Obviously, both sentiments are infuriating. If you can’t do anything, why did you run? The other … I can’t even begin to tackle.</p>
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