 of an eight-year-old who are foster family as well year and a half-year-old son and we have a newborn who's six months What do you do when that happens? Do you change the channel? It occurred to me And if you did I get it We kept it we kept it we kept it on We kept it on for our eight-year-old to absorb and like any curious eight-year-old she had questions The kids do they take in information the curiosity sparks And I had awful answers for the questions. That was the worst part of it That how did this happen? Why did this happen? And this one really got me Has this happened before? Surely she expected that the answer would be no But we know that it has And so we're here again Last question she asked me Was what do we do about it? Me come this right here We let the members of our community know that they're not alone And thinking that gun reform sensible gun reform saves lives you can feel alone in that thought in this state anybody yeah But we're here. You see like-minded people around you. You might not agree on everything We agree that common sense gun legislation needs to be passed at all levels of our government and we're going to hold those accountable That are blocking that legislation We're going to support those Who will make it happen In the Texas history class about Texas's historic history of independence Conflict in the science of the status quo and within all those stories were the same words and one of those words was righteous Now I'll stand on Texas as my home state to the end of time And I wish I could say that I feel that righteousness today seeing all of my fellow San Antonio's come together for something so important, but honestly That righteousness isn't there right now right now I fear anger Sadness and pain and fear I'm angry Because the inaction by the people that we go back into prioritized strict gun control It's sad and I'm grieving Because of the lives that we've already lost doing that in action Life, and we will not get that Sad angry and fearful But this isn't about me or many of us here It's about a call to action over the much needed regulation of these weapons and the ease of which someone can get one And that was enough So the Constitution is used as a platform by one side a lot of times to justify the death and pain we have to endure Let me remind them that the words of the Second Amendment were written in 1789 When militias were needed to be on standby and the most common weapon was a single-shot musket In case they haven't noticed times have changed We cannot live in the past. We must repeat. We cannot repeat the mistakes and if we want to change the future We have to move forward The Constitution was also created to give power to the people The power to elect representatives would come with the idea that those officials would represent whatever mandate the people set The system is clearly broken and the majority is being ignored In his time the majority issued an eviction notice and Elected those who will act in the interest of all citizens and not mind their greedy pockets Hi, a math school shooting occurs It becomes more and more difficult to maintain that belief that our schools are safe for our students and our staff in Texas time and time again We have seen our state leadership utterly fail to keep our schools safe Whether it's from gun violence or from COVID politicians like governor Abbott and senator Ted Cruz have demonstrated their callous disregard for the working people of this state They have demonstrated who they are truly beholden to the billionaires especially those that profit off of the violence that they commit against our communities like the gun lobby our Union also believes that if something is wrong It is up for up to us to come together Collectively to organize and fight like hell to transform our society into the one that we deserve That our children deserve and that our communities deserve Which is why we are here to demand that our elected representatives do what is necessary to keep our community safe