Shaundelle Brooks, Aubrey Beasley and Joylyn Bukovac had already been touched by America’s greatest shames: a mass shooting. In Nashville, the shooting took them right back to the trauma of their past.
“We shouldn’t have to live like this. We shouldn’t have to live in fear, you know?” said Brooks, 50. “We’re not safe in schools, you’re not safe when you go out to eat at the Waffle House, you’re not safe in church — you’re not safe anywhere.”When Brooks received her son’s text Monday, it sent her into a tailspin. She took off in her car toward his school, praying for his safety — that he would be alive, and stay that way.
“It definitely gave me PTSD and made me, panicking. Putting fear into me,” Aldane said. He was locked in his classroom at the time, while students and educators waited for more information. “I just thought to myself I have to stay calm, keep my head on in case something happens.” “I know exactly what they’re feeling at this moment. They’re in that ball,” she said, crouching in fetal position to demonstrate. “That’s the position you’re in for a long time because you just feel like you’re drowning. But you don’t have the energy to save yourself, and pull yourself back up … or say you need help.”Beasley befriended Brooks through their gun control activism, and reached out to her while on vacation in Nashville to meet up.
Instead, she found herself rushing to the site of another mass killing to provide support to Brooks, her friend. In front of a scrum of reporters, she gave an impassioned plea for additional gun restriction measures to keep semiautomatic rifles from the hands of mass killers.
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