I’m a Shooting Survivor—and I Am Looking for More Than Just “Thoughts and Prayers”
How many more people have to die before we take action?
Taylor S. Schumann is a survivor of the April 2013 shooting at a college in Christiansburg, Virginia. She is a writer and activist whose writing has appeared in Christianity Today, Sojourners, and Fathom. She is the author of the forthcoming title When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough: A Shooting Survivor’s Journey into the Realities of Gun Violence (July 2021) and a contributor to If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings.