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When our children ask us, “Am I next?” No child should grow up fearing the world that is meant to hold them. No mother should lie awake wondering if her daughter will make it home. No family should carry the terror of a question that should never exist. We owe them more. We owe them a future where their laughter is louder than their fear. Where they grow up without trauma carved into their childhood. Where their names are not turned into hashtags. Where they return safe home from University. Whe