"No one should ever have to go through one shooting, let alone two."
"I chose Brown, a place that I love, because it felt like somewhere I could finally be safe and finally, you know, be normal in this new normal that I live of a school shooting survivor. And it's happened again."
"When I was 11, I told myself I'd never go through a school shooting. When I was 12, I told myself it would never happen again. Now I'm freshly 20, and I've once more been proven wrong. First Parkland, now Brown University. My safe haven away from my trauma."
Mia Tretta, a junior at Brown University, survived two separate school shootings. She was shot in the abdomen at age 15 during a 2018 Saugus High School shooting that killed two students and injured two others. Over the weekend she was among hundreds at Brown traumatized by a gunman whose spree left two dead and nine injured. Tretta said no one should experience one shooting, let alone two, and described choosing Brown to feel safe before the recent attack. Zoe Weissman, who was 12 when the Parkland shooting killed 17 and injured 18, also reported being affected again. A right-wing media influencer challenged Weissman's age claim on social media.
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