Enough.
My formative years were shaped by gun violence. My son’s entire life has been shaped by it, too.
6 min readJun 9, 2022
It was a Wednesday. I was a high school junior, not yet 17.
Throughout the day, I found myself glancing behind me, mentally noting how I could get out of any of my classrooms should the threat arise. At 16, I taught myself situational awareness because just 24 hours before, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had murdered 12 students and one teacher before turning their guns on themselves at Columbine High School.
