By Gary Meyer, TME

“One of the most difficult things I have to do as a school administrator,” Frazier Mountain High School principal Sara Haflich said, “[is] writing a letter to families after something as horrific as the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Haflich is also superintendent of El Tejon Unified School District.

“It took me multiple days to even wrap my brain around the event [as]…a superintendent/principal who truly loves all of our ETUSD students, but also as a mother myself,” she wrote.

“Providing needed emotional support for students and employees is always an immediate priority, but trying to learn from the event also kicks in right away,” she added. “What can we do better? Where can we improve to prevent anything like this from happening here?”

The State of California

Governor Gavin Newsom issued new data on June 2 to show California’s firearm death rate dropped by 55% between 1993 and 2017 after…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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A Brady California chart shows the decrease in California’s rate of gun deaths vs. the rest of the United States.

Assault-style rifles on a sales display

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