talks about what inspired him to join the movement to honor the victims and families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting by preventing more tragedy. Sheriff Toulon was an invited speaker at the 2019 Sandy Hook Promise Gala in Washington, DC, Upon taking office in January 2018, his first community initiative was to partner with Sandy Hook Promise to bring their programming to all Suffolk County schools. Sheriff Toulon was so moved by this organization, that out of something tragic, built a school safety program that empowers students, teachers, and the community to become empowered bystanders.
There he met with Mark Barden, one of the founders of Sandy Hook Promise and the father of Daniel, one of the young children killed in Sandy Hook Elementary School. attended a gala in New York City for the Sandy Hook Promise Organization. A student should be worried about their grades, not their safety.In December of 2017, then Sheriff-Elect Errol Toulon, Jr. Listen to the presidential candidates and educate yourself so our children won’t have to practice active shooter drills or think about where to hide in life-threatening situations. Clearly hashtags and edgy posters have not had the impact we all want and need. So, how will things change? At this point, hope for our future and the safety of children in schools everyday depends on us. And when the incidents do make the news, they become a hashtag, people insist we need to change, maybe even protest, and a week or two later things are swept under the rug. The thought that every school shooting incident that occurs is not considered newsworthy is a disturbing one. You may think, “that can’t be, I don’t remember seeing that many news stories.” That isīecause these incidents have become so frequent that people are becoming numb to the Security’s “K-12 School Shooting Database,” there were 110 school shooting incidents last yearĪlone. Change needs to happen.ĭespite Sandy Hook Promise’s efforts, according to the Center for Homeland Defense and They can remain respectful to those sensitive to the topic, while still clearly establishing the fact that we don’t have time to waste. They produced, often present the situation in very real, thought-provoking ways. Their most recent video, as well as others Sandy Hook Elementary School less painful, Sandy Hook Promise is taking steps to aid efforts to make school shootings a thing of the past. Although nothing can make what happened on Decemat School on December 14, 2012.” 27 innocent lives were taken when a man opened fire. Watching children so young and seeing the rawness of the situation and fear in their faces makes one realize how horrifying a real school-shooter situation is.Īccording to their website, Sandy Hook Promise is “a national non-profit organization foundedĪnd lead by several family members whose loved ones were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary In addition, the children appear to be in middle or elementary school.
As a shooter enters the school, the children are forced to use their new colored pencils and scissors to defend themselves or use their new knee-high socks to make a tourniquet. The shock factor begins when the children explain their new supplies are great, but not just for schoolwork. This is largely due to the unexpected twist because the video does not appear to be about gun violence at all initially.Īs the video opens, it appears tobe a light-hearted advertisement for various products commonly bought as children go back to school. Yet this one has sparked a serious discussion. Various videos about the horrors of mass shootings have been made, especially in recent years. So, why was this video so profoundly impactful? The video aimed to draw attention to and encourage viewers to discuss the harsh realities of school shootings, which have become far too normalized in today’s society. This seems to be exactly what Sandy Hook Promise hoped would happen. Most viewers agreed the video shocked them to their core and moved some to tears. The video quickly went viral on Twitter, and many news stations discussed it. On September 17th, 2019,, Sandy Hook Promise uploaded a video on YouTube titled “Back-To-School Essentials,” about preventing school shootings.
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