Not many people are shot twice with an AR-15 during a mass shooting and live to talk about it, but Arnulfo Reyes has. And we should all listen to what he has to say.
Reyes was the lone survivor in Room 111 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, when 19 fourth graders, two teachers and a gunman were killed, and 17 others injured, on May 24, 2022.
At the one-year anniversary of the shooting, we are rightly remembering the dead who were senselessly taken from this world. But the injured must be remembered as well, and not lost in the assumption that once they were released from the hospital they went about their lives as before.
