Scarlett

Yeah.

Well, they had had an active shooter drill three weeks before the tragedy.

And, uh...

You know, being a parent that just, you know, I had a full-time job and I just assumed that when my child was at school that it was their responsibility.

And I remember one evening right before he was shot, he came into the dining room after we'd had dinner and I'm sitting with my mom having a glass of wine.

He comes up behind me and he says,

Mom, what would I do if a school shooter came into the school?

And I mean, never thinking that it would ever happen to me, obviously, because those things don't happen to people like me.

I remember sitting there swirling my glass.

I looked over my shoulder and I said, run zigzag.

You know, I mean, like, if I could do it over, I would drop to my knees and I would say, why are you asking that?

You know, but I just was so nonchalant, never thinking that that would happen.

So, you know, you find something like that out about your son, I immediately quit my job, realizing that I would have to dedicate my life to being part of the solution, and started a nonprofit called ChooseLoveMovement.org.

I decided, looking at the pathway to violence, which is what the Department of Homeland Security uses, and this isn't just for school shootings, it's for all violence,

It usually, almost always, starts with a grievance, just like James said.

But what I noticed was that everyone was focusing on the attack end.

Just like we do major issues in our society, we focus on the problem.

And what you focus on grows.

And so I decided there's a lot of people doing that.

I'm going to take the road less traveled.