I can’t sleep tonight. I am worried about my son. My nonconformist son who decided to stand across the street from his high school during the “walkout” today holding a sign that said “Don’t blame guns. Blame culture,” while his friend waved a Support Trump flag. A group of protestors, the same students who so eagerly walked out of school to join the cause of peace, chased down and threatened my son and his friend, while pushing and shoving them, until a school social worker and another student intervened. They were okay, thank God, but the school administration made the decision to send them home for the day for their safety, as the other students were “very upset.” What? Upset about what? Upset about the fact that my son had an opinion different from their own and decided to share it? In fact, these non-violent, peace-loving students must have been beyond just upset because the administration decided that it wouldn’t be safe for my son to return to school for the rest of the week.

I keep seeing videos and news articles showing the peaceful young protestors who are fed up with gun violence and want change. I get it. My heart breaks for the young people of today who can’t feel safe at school. I get it! But it’s not the gun’s fault. Tomorrow my son can’t feel safe at school because the same students who protested gun violence, have threatened him. Violence happens with or without guns. The guns just get more attention.

I pray for my son. I pray for the schools. I pray for families that have lost loved ones. I pray for the politicians and our President. I pray for the bullied and the bullies. We are all hurting. Only God can help us.