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[sarah サラ @drsarah]

Can I tell you guys a story?

I am a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting. Most horrific day of my life. I was right outside the building when he started shooting. I was told to run across an open field to safety by panicked campus police. I remember running in a zig zag pattern because I believed the shooter was outside. I barricaded behind a campus police vehicle for hours in the snow, watching the SWAT team arrive then the students jumping from windows holding white sheets of paper above their heads to indicate they were not a threat.

Later that night, my friend from high school was among those who called to make sure I was safe. I know I talked to a bunch of people that night but his call is the only one I remember. He said to me, “Sarah, this is why you need to carry. Everyone needs to carry.”

I hung up on him.

I was so angry. I HATED that he said that to me. I blamed the gun.

I blamed the gun for years. Was this what tipped me over the edge to identify as a Democrat for the time that I did?? Maybe. I can’t say for sure. I was trending that way a bit before this because I was young and wanted everyone to “have equal rights.”

But I held on to what he said and believed that was the problem. We needed more gun control not more guns.

I believed this for a long time, but the more and more I thought about it, the more and more I struggled with details about it.

If we have more gun control then what does that mean about cops? We can’t have cops armed and citizens not armed. We also can’t have cops not armed, because there are plenty of citizens illegally armed (and we all know that won’t go away…criminals are gonna criminal).

Then I thought about the details of that day. I didn’t know it at the time of course, but the Virginia Tech shooter targeted classrooms. He was not outside. He was able to get to so many classrooms and do the level of damage he did because he chained the doors shut. Everyone in that building was unarmed. Sitting ducks for evil to prey on. The police were not able to get there fast enough to neutralize the threat because he knew to lock them out.

32 people lost their lives that day. Countless others were injured, had to have bullets removed, and even some have to live with the bullets still in them to this day.

How much of this would not have happened if one of those teachers carried?? We can’t ever know, obviously, but it surely seems like the evil killing spree would have been cut much shorter.

The shooting happened April 16, 2007. One month before my graduation.

It has been a long and interesting road to where I am now. Many people in my life probably don’t recognize the person I am today. In this time I have come to realize that I blamed the gun because I was afraid. I was afraid of the gun.

The first time I went to a shooting range I was shaking so bad I couldn’t even write my simple five letter name on the forms and I almost threw up in the waiting area.

Now I am a second amendment advocate.

I do not advocate for violence. It is never the answer. But evil exists and it is up to us to protect ourselves. In fact, one of the first things you learn in a gun safety class is that you never want to pull out the gun unless you absolutely have to. Your wallet, watch, jewelry, phone, car, whatever are not worth taking someone’s life. I want to make that clear.

I also want to make it clear that if you are not comfortable around guns or in using one, then make that a top priority now. Start small. Get comfortable. Get trained. This is especially directed at women! If you aren’t comfortable with a gun please consider other options for personal safety. I am a runner. I have MACE and even a taser that I carry whenever I’m running alone. I’ve heard too many stories.

This is in no way advocating for violence. What it is though is advocating for personal safety. It is us against evil and no one is coming to save us. It is your right to protect yourself and your family. ❤️

[Breitbart News @BreitbartNews]

House Democrats OBJECT to a request for prayer after the apparent assassination of Charlie Kirk

[Overton @overton_news]

BREAKING: Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University.

Truly devastating news.

Conservative legend Charlie Kirk has passed away at the age of 31.

Will Cain broke the news live on Fox:

“It is my great dishonor to be the person that says this and breaks this to you on television, but President Donald Trump is announcing on Truth Social: The great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead.”

“Charlie Kirk, according to the president of the United States, is dead.”

“I don’t really know where you go from here.”

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

It’s all about Jesus.

[R Y L E Y @ryleylford]

Continuing to tell high schoolers they will fail without going to college is going to cause the downfall of our country - blue collar workers quite literally keep our county running👏🏼

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Mike Rowe: “For every five tradespeople that retire this year, two replace them.”

“It’s been that way for 12 years.”

“I don’t need to be a mathematician, this is bad arithmetic.”

“7.2 million able-bodied men today, in their prime working years, are not only unemployed … they’re not even looking.”

“What are they doing?”

“2,000 hours a year, on average, on screens.”

“I got a call from a company called BlueForge Alliance … in charge of something called the maritime industrial base.”

“The maritime industrial base consists of 15,000 individual companies, all of whom are tasked with delivering thermonuclear-powered submarines to the US Navy—three a year, two Virginia-class, one Columbia.”

“BlueForge Alliance calls me and they say, we need to hire some tradespeople, and we were wondering if you and your foundation could help.”

“I said, I’ll try, as you probably learned, it’s pretty skinny out there … how many do you need?”

“They said 100,000.”

“100,000 tradespeople for one industry that most people don’t even think about.”

“They said, we’ve looked everywhere … do you know where they are?”

“I said, yeah I do, they’re in the eighth grade.”

“That’s 100,000 building submarines. There’s 80,000 in the automotive industry alone for technicians. Right now … 80,000 openings.”

“You start to go down the list and you begin to realize our workforce is wildly out of balance.”

@mikeroweworks @momsforamerica

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Dems kneeled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds for a drug-infused violent criminal.

Laken Riley fought for her life for 18 excruciating minutes before it was taken by an illegal gang member — yet they couldn’t even *stand* to honor her family.

Really process that.

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

Thank you whoever created this so fast — you’re good!

[Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence]

WHOAAA! Elon Musk Responded to my post about ending BOI Rule !

The Next Day the Treasury department announced they will not be enforcing fines and penalties associated with BOI

The Gov was threatening to put people in prison for not filling out the form

ELON MUSK is the MAN! Thank you!

@elonmusk how do you have time to help save our Tax Dollars, Run DOGE, Send off Rockets, Run a Trillion Dollar companies and Respond to Post on X ?

Are you an Alien ? If so you are my Favorite African American Alien.

[R Y L E Y @ryleylford]

A government that will protect from the overreach of SMALL BUSINESSES >>>

[Treasury Department @USTreasury]

The Treasury Department is announcing today that, with respect to the Corporate Transparency Act, not only will it not enforce any penalties or fines associated with the beneficial ownership information reporting rule under the existing regulatory deadlines…

[@the3emoji @the3emoji]

❓❓❓ BOI Hiding Something?

What is the purpose of BOI if most of the entities that are exempt would require the most audit for fraud and abuse?

The requirement is back in effect as of 2/19/2025.

BOI seems to target mostly small and medium business (SMB) sector. For future regulation? For future taxation?

Please review why the businesses are exempt.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

I can't explain how ridiculously offensive it is for women to be reduced down to whether they've been inseminated or not

[StarmerOut @ForeverScept]

Nationalism is SO BACK.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The DEMOCRATS are IMPORTING VOTERS!

It is very important to understand that they really are doing this at scale.

It is fact, not rhetoric.

[George @BehizyTweets]

BREAKING: President Trump just announced a joint venture between the United States and Japan to sell American oil to Japan.

This is going to cause a major economic boom in BOTH countries. AMAZING!

[Jay’V @JayVTheGreat]

I don’t get it… You’re burning the flag of the country that you illegally entered & want to stay in; but you’re waving the flag of the country that you fled from & don’t want to be deported back to… 🤔🤔🤔

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Between 75,000 and 80,000 of the over 300,000 missing migrant children have been located, according to Harris Faulkner on Fox News.

She stated that the Trump administration's efforts to identify these children began even before the election and emphasized the importance of finding "these little ones."

Faulkner blasted former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for lying to a committee about not knowing the whereabouts of these missing children.

Tom Homan announced that plans to launch an operation to locate and rescue these children would begin immediately.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

They haven’t changed.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

The first day of President Trump's second term is the most aggressive and ambitious in the history of the country. On his first day in office, President Trump took all of the following actions:

-Pardons for about 1500 J6 defendants

-An order declaring that, henceforth, birthright citizenship is limited to the children of lawful permanent residents of the United states, not illegal immigrants, tourists, or those here on temporary work visas

-An order pulling America out of the Paris Climate accord

-An order pulling the US out of the World Health Organization

-A temporary freeze on all non-military, non-national security federal hiring

-A temporary freeze on creating new federal regulations

-An order to rename the Gulf of Mexico officially to the Gulf of America, and returning Denali's name back to Mt. McKinley

-An order delaying the TikTok ban for 75 days

-An order declaring an emergency on the Southern Border and designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups

-An order immediately repealing 78 existing Biden orders. One of those orders revives a ban on transgender troops in the military. Another ends Biden restrictions on oil drilling in certain areas.

-Ordering all federal employees to return to the workplace in-person

-An order to eliminate all federal government diversity programs, including eliminating all federal DEI jobs. The order also mandates a review of all federal grants that went to DEI or "environmental justice" programs, and orders a review of federal contractors who have provided DEI training manuals to federal workers.

-A new order reclassifying members of the federal civil servants so they are easier to fire and replace, especially if they hinder or sabotage the administration's planned agenda.

-An order to review all potential political weaponization or misconduct within the DOJ, SEC, FTC, and the intelligence agencies over the past four years

-Declaring that the federal government only recognizes two sexes

-Ordering the Bureau of Prisons to cease providing any funding or support for inmate sex changes or transgender therapies

-Order to end all censorship of protected speech by the Federal government, including under the guise of fighting "misinformation"

-Revoking security clearances for John Bolton and everybody to signed the Hunter Biden laptop letter

-Ordering the administration to make recommendations for beautifying federal architecture

-Ordering a 90 day pause of US foreign assistance funding so it can be adjusted to match new US political goals

No president has been more determined to immediately keep every promise that he ran on in the previous election.

America is going to become great again.

It's only been 24 hours.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

When you know your husband is about to destroy the people who raided your home

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Biden pardons for Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, the members of the Jan. 6 committee and the cops who testified before the committee because they are GUILTY OF CRIMES.

Never forget what the Democrats have done.

The mask is completely OFF.