
Simple Things Can Save Lives in Our Schools:
Lessons from Marjory Stoneman Douglas
A Preventable Tragedy February 14, 2018. Nikolas Cruz, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with a history of violent and aggressive tendencies, entered the school with a weapon. The death toll was staggering. And quick. In approximately eight minutes seventeen people, fourteen students and three staff members were killed inside the school. Seventeen others were wounded. And it did not have to be that way. There is a lot of discussion on how to prevent an