Santa Fe shooting survivor Megan McGuire has a strong message for lawmakers with regard to gun reform: "Inaction is not an option."

As noted by The Hill, the 17-year-old spoke on Friday, May 25 at a press conference held by her Santa Fe High School classmates. The shooting, which took place a week prior on May 18, resulted in 10 deaths and 10 more injuries.

While speaking, Megan commented that "whatever we are doing as a society — or not doing — is not working." The high school student also touched on the knee-jerk responses of politicians to offer "thoughts and prayers" instead of action and change — and her statement did not mince words. "For elected officials who think that doing nothing is acceptable," she said, "my thought is that if you do not do something, you do not have a prayer of being elected." She noted that "my generation will see to that," echoing the sentiments of other survivors of gun violence who have pledged to "vote them out."

Other Santa Fe survivors have spoken out in a variety of ways since May 18. Many of Megan's classmates took to social media on the day of the shooting, where they described the range of emotions they felt during the incident. "I have been watching the life around me," one student tweeted. "I am not living. I am existing. Time is frozen. My life stands still." Another wrote: "Now anytime I hear sirens, my heart stops for a second as I scan the area around me as fast as I can."

Bree Butler, a senior at Santa Fe High School, told Teen Vogue that she had been fighting for gun reform prior to the shooting, and even attended Houston's March for Our Lives. "Then, I was standing up for people in Florida who I didn’t even know, but cared about so deeply because they had gone through this unspeakable tragedy," she explained. "Now it’s my own classmates. It’s people I personally know and knew…. It’s terrifying."

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