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Parkland and Brown: What It's Like to Survive Two School Shootings

Episode 8057 | 18m 10s

It has been six days since a shooting at Brown that killed two students and injured nine others. Mass shootings are now commonplace in America. As a child, Zoe Weissman survived the 2018 Parkland shooting. She relived that trauma this past weekend as she hid in her dorm room at Brown. Weissman joins Michel Martin to discuss how this has become a shared experience for too many young Americans.

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