iGeneration Youth are Saying Enough is Enough to Gun Violence and Demanding Real Change!

Reggie Jones-Sawyer (courtesy photo) For nearly twenty years our children have dealt with unprecedented gun violence in our schools and communities. No other generation has had to live with the fear of getting slaughtered at school, waking up to gun fire or ducking for cover in the middle of the night the way that Millennials and the iGeneration (iGen) have endured. “I was only 12 as I sat in math class on October 8 th, 2012. I remember the sounds and the screams of my classmates … then I look down to my feet and I see a bullet next to my pink vans… After that day, I struggle with PTSD and still struggle with being afraid,” said Anahi Ballesteros a junior at Franklin High School in Stockton, CA. Anahi was one of nearly 150 students from across California who joined me recently at the Capitol for a briefing on gun violence. I wanted to learn our youth’s concerns firsthand, and to hear how gun violence has affected their lives. It pains me, not only as a lawmaker, but as a father, to admit that mass shootings have become normalized on our campuses and in our communities. Every young life lost is one too many. Our youth are crying out for help, demanding change and they need to be heard. The Millennial generation was the first to experience a mass school shooting when, in 1999, students were shot and murdered at Columbine High School. Millennials responded by disrupting the […]

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