A survivor of the Michigan State shooting was also a survivor of the Sandy Hook shooting

A gunman shot dead several people at Michigan State University in Lansing on Monday evening. It’s an all too common occurrence in America, especially on school campuses. I still wasn’t prepared a see TikTok by Jackie Matthewsan MSU student explains that she Also survived the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Matthews was across the street from one of the filming locations when she shot her video around 1 a.m. Tuesday morning. “I am 21 Years old and this is the second mass shooting I have witnessed now. I survived the Sandy Hook shooting ten years and two months ago,” Matthews said.

At least three students are dead at Lansing, Michigan, University and at least five other students are wounded. The shooter shot himself off campus.

Matthews said her body will always carry what happened in Newtown. “While crouched in a corner at school in Newtown, Connecticut on 12/14/12, I crouched in the corner with my classmates for so long that I actually suffered a PTSD fracture in my L4 and L5 to the right of my lower back,” said Matthews. “I now have a full blown PTSD fracture that flares up every time I’m in a stressful situation or something that’s aggressive happens.”

Matthews has joined a unique American generation of people survived the school shootings and are still bearing the aftermath. “The fact that this is the second mass shooting I’ve witnessed is incomprehensible,” Matthews said. “We can no longer just give love and prayers. It has to be legislation. Action must be taken.”

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To complement Matthew’s call to action in a frightening Statistically, there have been more mass shootings in 2023 than days in a calendar year CNN. We’re waiting with bated breath to see if any lawmakers will step forward – but last week several Republicans did congressman allegedly wore AR-15 pins to support a weapons manufacturerso it’s safe to say that nothing will change this time either.