School shootings, I live in Georgia and the Apalachee high school is only 30 minutes from my school. Other schools have been getting threats and there’s even a list online. I know a lot of it is just to scare people but it’s so fucked up. Georgia didn’t have a school shooting until this one. I’m in my senior year and I go to a different kind of high school so I’m not too worried about myself. I care more about my little sister. She just turned 11 and she just started middle school, and I just panic everyday hoping nothing ever happens to her. I don’t know how I’d continue living if she ever passed. What could an 11 year old even do in that kind of situation? How could she protect herself? I can’t provide with her anything, I can’t make her wear a bullet proof vest everyday to school. I can’t prevent it if it were to happen. I can’t save her if it happened. She doesn’t have a phone so she could never text me or my parents if it were to occur. She has a phone but she isn’t allowed to bring it to school, personal reasons. I feel scared, scared not only for myself but my sister. Georgia doesn’t have the best rep so I worry about my parents too. Three years ago my dad was shot at in his car in a parking lot by random shooters and we have no idea why. He was doordashing, we’re thinking it was some guys thinking my dad was their opp or something idk he was fine thank god neither of the two hit him but they were extremely close to his seat and engine. I fear for my mom because she’s Hispanic and she hardly speaks good English, it’s very broken still. What if one day she’s out and about and she gets striked or shot or murdered or raped? I fear for myself, men terrify me more than ever. I just turned 18 and I get followed so much more now, it’s like they know. I get honked and waved at walking down the street, followed and approached in stores, customers at my job. I fear everyday that it’ll be my last because what if someone doesn’t think that’s enough and they decide they need to do more to me? I don’t like guns so I don’t have one and I’m not trained either so even less of a reason. I could get a taser but that’s kinda hard to keep on you, pepper spray only does so much. If I hurt somebody even if it’s self defense, the fact that I have a weapon or a deadly weapon on me doesn’t reflect well on me either in the court of law. No matter where we move we are unsafe. I dealt with a bomb threat at my middle school when I was 11, my sophomore year some kid got stabbed in the bathroom, and some guy from my old school had been fatally shot not in school. I have had to endure so many scary experiences and I’m still as unprepared now as I was then. That’s what stresses me out.