Our hearts are broken at the news of yet another devastating school shooting, this time at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Young children, from preschoolers to sixth graders, had their safety ripped away in a hail of bullets. Three children and three adults lost their lives.

This is just the latest in an unending pattern of gun violence in the United States — this is the country's 129th mass shooting this year alone.

We cannot stand idly by while the lives of children are snuffed out in the very places where they should feel safest. We cannot look away as educators are gunned down in their places of work.

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