Policymakers debate arming teachers. Parents buy bulletproof backpacks. So many adult Americans fret over a generation of students raised to know the run-hide-fight of active shooter drills.
But as the body count only grows in America's deepening crisis of mass shootings, we need to hear from the children who are growing up in the shadow of gun violence. Whether or not they know what it feels like to carry a bulletproof backpack, they know intimately the weight of fear and of anger – of wondering whether they might be next.