Shaima Shamdeen wrote this story for The Affordable Housing Issue, the Summer 2018 issue of YES! Magazine. Shaima is a solutions reporting intern for YES! Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
If thoughts and prayers alone worked to stop gun violence, there wouldn't have been a shooting at a Christian elementary school. It's your actions - including weakening the state's gun laws - that's killing kids in Tennessee.
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