”#IfIDieInASchoolShooting I think about it every day. If I can carry enough of my special needs kids to safety or lock the door fast enough. If I die put my body on the steps of Congress. Let them have the blood on their hands.”
For pupils in the UK, the fear of being shot while at school is just that, a fear.
But for their peers across the Atlantic ocean, it’s become a very real, very terrifying and possible prospect.
So far in 2018, there have already been at least 20 shootings in which someone was hurt or killed at educational institutions. Last Friday, 10 people were shot and killed at Santa Fe High School, in Texas.
And last night, American teenagers took to Twitter to make their wishes known - and their voices heard - with the hashtag #IfIDieInASchoolShooting.
The tweets are, of course, highly-emotive, deeply horrifying, and extremely powerful.