Heartland
February 14th, Parkland, FL. For residents, Valentines day comes around with 70-degree weather and sunshine. The students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School prepare to celebrate the holiday festivities and begin to pack up their bags and finish their last classes as the school day comes to a close. However, as the students, ages 14-18, begin to leave, Nikolas Cruz, 19, slips into the building and unloads his semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, killing 17 and injuring dozens of others. The Parkland High School Shooting was the 30th mass shooting in 2018, and echoing the sentiments of news sources from The Onion to The New York Times, “In the only country where this regularly happens.” As of today, the Parkland High School shootings go down as one of the deadliest mass shootings and the deadliest high school shooting in American History. When I heard the news of the attack, I was walking out of my Creative Writing class. One of my friends pulled up alongside me a