D.C. Student: ‘Bullying Triggers Emotions that Will Make a Student Want to Bring a Weapon to School’

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BARNETT: "So our schools, we do take preventative measures and everything to stop that, like we check bags at the door and everything. It does make us — at first we’re like, 'No, we don’t want to do this,' but then we realize it’s for our safety. But we want to make sure that it continues and that nothing can ever slip up to — for these things to happen. Like in school, counseling for our students who are struggling with fear and bullying. Bullying triggers emotions that will make a student want to bring a weapon to school to protect themselves or to get revenge for a person that did something to them. So we just want to have a lot of preventative measures to be in the schools and also outside of school to make sure that nothing can happen to us while we’re in school."