Content warning: This email reflects on the active shooting at Florida State University and the April 16, 2025 mass shooting in Dallas, Texas. If this is too much to read right now, we understand. Take care of yourself and feel free to skip the rest of this email. Here are some mental health resources that you may find helpful.
John,
This is breaking: multiple people have been hospitalized after a shooting at Florida State University.
This is the second time that there has been a school shooting on Florida State University’s campus.
And this comes just after a shooter opened fire at Wilmer-Hutchins High School sending four students to the hospital yesterday. Their condition is still unknown.
This is the second shooting incident in almost a year at Wilmer-Hutchins High School.
As Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde said during a news conference, “Quite frankly, this is becoming way too familiar, and it should not be familiar.”
Not only are students being attacked in places that are supposed to be safe, they’re facing the same danger and tragedy repeatedly.
This is more than just one college in Florida or one high school in Dallas.
This is a crisis that is injuring and killing people across the country every single day, and it’s happening at the same places over and over again.
These statistics are not normal. This is an epidemic that demands action.
We say: Not one more time at Florida State University. Not one more time at Wilmer-Hutchins High School. Not one more high school. Not one more kid. Not one more shooting. Not one more life lost.
We will never forget what we’re fighting for. We will not rest until all students at all schools are safe.
Our hearts go out to all those affected at Florida State University and at Wilmer-Hutchins High School.
In solidarity,
March For Our Lives
