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realizing now that children his own age were murdered inside their classroom, inside their school, he s trying to process it all. and he saw my own anxiety this morning and i felt guilty for even causing a little bit of his own. and he actually said to me, don t worry, mommy. i will be home tonight. he said, i make a promise to myself every day that i will make it home at night. now, these should not be the promises any child has to make. not in a nation where our promises to keep them safe have not been kept. i remember when mr. rogers was trying to comfort kids like me by telling them when you see scary things, look for the helpers. look for the helpers. okay, well, as far as we know, the helpers stood in the hallway. the helpers heard shots even after they believed it was a barricade and not an active shooter, and when the helpers aren t being tight hp lipped, they re offering changing narratives but i m still going to look to these helpers. but this time it will be ....
Weren t surprised given the gun culture in uvalde. tell me a little more about this area as to why that was your sentiment. of course, i understand you were not undermining or minimizing what s happened by not being surprised, but the culture itself is what shook you. laura, thank you for having me. what i meant to convey in saying i wasn t surprised was that as i watched the events unfold, i understood them. and i knew it was a very complex set of events. and it was that tragedy and that very, very deep sadness that drove me to write the article. i was born in uvalde. i have lived there. my great grandfather settled in uvalde in the 1870s. and i grew up at my grandparents ranch which i still own in northern uvalde, and i grew up hunting and fishing there. ....