Fred Guttenberg’s daughter, Jaime, used to be certainly one of 17 other folks killed within the 2018 mass capturing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Prime Faculty in Parkland, Florida.
He spoke with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, simply hours after 18 youngsters and one grownup had been killed in Uvalde, Texas.
“This has been a horrific day. It doesn’t topic how a lot time passes, it brings you proper again to that minute. I will be able to’t prevent excited about those households lately who want to work out how they’re going to bury their youngsters, who want to work out how they’re going to console their different youngsters, who want to work out how they’re going to take care of the truth that that they had different youngsters most likely in that faculty who’re going to have PTSD, who want to work out a eulogy,” Guttenberg mentioned.
Guttenberg mentioned information of any other capturing is infuriating “as a result of all of those cases we all know the following one goes to occur as a result of we haven’t finished the rest to mend it.”
“I’m simply so damaged. What’s even worse, it’s no longer like this nation doesn’t wish to repair this,” he mentioned.
When requested what message he’d give to households in Uvalde, Guttenberg quoted one thing his rabbi informed him at his daughter’s funeral: “We do not transfer on, we transfer ahead.”
“I would like everybody to grasp that they’re cherished and that they’re going to move ahead. It is what I name a ‘new commonplace,'” he mentioned. “However the following few mins, hours, days are going to be brutal.”
