This week in Her Campus at The New School, first-year writing student Bailey Guess has a feature about the shooting in the Parkland, Florida. Bailey focuses on the lives and the voices of high school students:

The fear that is being normalized within high schools across the nation is yet another sign that we need, as a nation, to do better—at protecting our children, at tightening the loose gun laws that allowed a troubled nineteen-year-old to legally buy an AR-15, and at ensuring that nothing of this caliber happens to another defenseless group of minors ever again.

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