A suvivor of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting and parent of a victim of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting shared their thoughts on the Robb Elementary shooting.
at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday left 19 children, two teachers and the suspect dead in the largest shooting to take place at an elementary school since Newtown, Connecticut, shooting suspect Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
"I remember everything about that day at Columbine. To think that these kids are seeing and feeling the kinds of things I saw and felt in the library is so sad," Johnson told Fox News Digital."I mean, they are babies and it’s heartbreaking, and I never could’ve thought it would happen to me, and it keeps happening to others. You just never think it could happen to you."
"None of the proposals in [C]ongress would have done anything to stop this," he said."We don’t know everything about the attack and based on the attacks I study, none of these proposals would stop anything." "[F]or me, as a parent dealing with hard things in the past, I teach my kids how to handle big emotions and provide them the tools to work through challenging times," she said."Teach kids that their words and actions have a big impact around them. You have to give kids the tools to navigate the hard stuff."Both Johnson and Petty emphasized the importance of communicating with others in the community after a tragedy such as a school shooting.
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