I Have Not Lost Someone to Gun Violence

Abstract

On Friday, April 20, 2018, Gettysburg College students organized a campus-wide walkout to protest all forms of gun violence as part of Gettysburg College’s first annual Peace and Justice Week. Over the next several days, SURGE published the poems and personal testimonies of the student speakers who participated in the event. I have not lost someone to gun violence, but When I hear the word gun… I still picture children’s bodies lying lifeless on the floor of a blue-carpeted classroom [excerpt