Katy Perry told the contestant, whose friends were killed in the shooting, that the country has 'failed us.'
has tallied 94 mass shootings in the United States, in which four or more people, not including the shooter, are injured or killed.“We have tolerated this for so long, for too long,” Richie said during Louis’s audition, wiping his eyes with his fingers. “It’s become a norm.”
Louis said he’s painfully aware of the toll gun violence has on communities. He’s among the more thansince the 1999 Columbine High shooting in Littleton, Colo. On the morning of May 18, 2018, Louis was finishing an art project that was due by the end of class, he wrote inthat year. Around 7:30 a.m., the loud bangs erupting from a nearby room sent students in Louis’s classroom into a state of panic. Louis rushed into a supply closet with a friend who told him, “Go, get out of here, I got the door,” as bullets flew closer to their hiding spot.
“I ran into the hallway and ended up exiting the back door of the school and realizing I just survived a school shooting,” Louis wrote. “Then it hit me that out of everyone of my friends that sits at my table in art, I’m the only one that has made it outside.”
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