A year after she was shot by her 6-year-old student in a Virginia classroom, former teacher Abby Zwerner said she still worries about the other children who saw it happen, and wonders how they’re faring.

Wounded by a bullet that struck her hand and chest and punctured a lung, Zwerner rushed the other first-graders into the hallway before she collapsed in the elementary school’s office.

“I hope that they are enjoying school, enjoying their second-grade year,” Zwerner, 26, told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper. “I hope that they’re still kind to their classmates, kind to teachers. I hope that they still have happiness, and that their happiness wasn’t completely stripped away.”

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    10 months ago

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    Reducing the disparity in wealth has a direct impact on the amount of people who want to lash out at society by killing indiscriminately.

    Give people reasons to live so they don’t make up reasons to kill.

    Unfortunately, liberals and conservatives love to unite on greed because they’re both in on it.

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      10 months ago

      What data are you using to back this claim? Most school shooters seem to come from middle class to rather affluent families. How do you guys manage to pivot every thing to class warfare?

      I was walking down the street and I stubbed my toe: “Ow how can the proletariat suffer the injustice of tripping over uneven sidewalks while the rich continue to exploit us!”

      This is like a meme level comment at this point.

      Edit: to everyone downvoting: Prove me wrong. Give me the data. Show me that income or class had a considerable impact on these active school shooters.