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'My dad might realize guns are a problem': Students tweet thoughts on #IfIDieInASchoolShooting

Hundreds of thousands of students, including many teachers, took to Twitter to share their message. It's a glimpse into their somber reality today.

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The hashtag "If I die in a school shooting" was trending online Monday after the recent school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas.

Hundreds of thousands of students, including many teachers, took to Twitter to share their message. It's a glimpse into their somber reality today.

Several local students tweeted their version of the hashtag to bring awareness to gun violence, school shootings and their desire for change.

"The hashtag meant so much to me, because I think about my family when I think about the tweet, because I'm very close with them," said Sarah Seyk, a senior at Da Vinci Charter Academy in Davis. "I decided to tweet about my family when I saw the hashtag, because I know those would be the people most affected by my death if a school shooting was to happen here."

While Seyk said she feels safe at school, lately she has felt uneasy.

"You think it won't happen here but you never know. It's always on the back of my mind or something im worried about," she shared.

Seyk decided to tweet her message.

"If I die in a school shooting, my dad might realize guns are a problem. I'd never share memes with my brother again. I wouldn't get to see my little sister graduate. My mom might start standing up to the relatives who don't believe in gun control," Seyk read her tweet out loud.

Izabelle Oliver is a seventh grader at St. John the Evangelist School. She tweeted, too.

"Send the NRA the bullet that ended my life and tell them, 'this bullet ended a teenage girl's life because of your inaction towards gun violence. All my dreams I have will end and my voice will no longer be heard also my parents will lose their little girl,'" Oliver read her tweet out loud.

Oliver wishes she did not have these thoughts.

"The fact that our little brothers and sisters have to write those or think about that," she said. "First, that they have to think about dying — not in a sick way, but being shot. That should never cross a child's mind."

Two-hundred and eighty characters on a screen is not enough space to share what these two students feel but they want their voice to be heard.

"Yeah we are too young to be talking about this, we are too young to be scared that our classmates may die, we are too young to be talking about our schools being shot up," Oliver said.

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