On the National Day of Concern, students across the national pledge against gun violence.
On the National Day of Concern, students across the national pledged against gun violence, including Bessemer City Middle Schoolers in Bessemer, Alabama. Alaina Bookman/AL.comMartez Sanders, an eighth grader at Bessemer City School, said he remembers crying after the shooting death of his uncle in 2023, which still affects his family a year later.I will never bring a gun to school. I will never use a gun to settle a personal problem or dispute.
Multiple students raised their hands when asked if they had lost a loved one to gun violence. Even when they are not victims themselves, children are still impacted by gun violence everyday. Talyn Griglen, a Bessemer City eighth grader, said she often watches the evening news with her mother, who is a teacher at the middle school, and watches her reaction as another one of her former students dies from gun violence.
She said it was difficult to listen to Barnes-Brown speak about the death of her child, as she imagined her own mother in a similar position.
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