You've dialed 911. The Sandy Hook School -I think there's somebody
shooting in here. They're still around and they're still shooting.
Sandy Hook School.
I keep hearing shooting! I keep hearing popping!
We've got a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Uniontown. It's still happening!
Anyone that's a student in this country is at risk now.
They were playing with the gun. And the gun went off and killed one of my students.
A thirteen-year-old girl who lost her life in an accidental shooting.
The first week of school, there were two guns found in the boys bathroom.
There have been several cases of juvenile gun violence in just the past couple of days.
Outside Columbine High School, students hear the sound of gunfire.
I was teaching at the time at Columbine. And that was a big shocker to me that something
like that could happen at a school.
The twelve-year-old injured two students and killed a teacher before taking his own life.
I had one student who shot himself and killed himself.
I found my son fifteen minutes after he um, pulled the trigger.
You've dialed 911, what's the emergency?
10 Dickenson Drive in Sandy Hook, Newtown Connecticut.
It sounds like there are gunshots in the hallway. I'm a teacher in the school.
Get everybody away from the windows, okay?
This is something that the survivors will never get over, there's no undoing that.
And, as a teacher, I just begin to get even more and more concerned about my safety and
my students safety.
Many of us hoped that that would be the catalyst for getting the American public angry enough
to say, "There's got to be something done about the availability of weapons."
Then I remembered being more upset, really upset when Congress didn't do anything about
that. It should have been something that motivated Congress to do something about gun control.
The Amendment is not agreed to.
As teachers, what we didn't know was our own retirement system here in California actually
had investments in companies that made the assault rifles.
Cerberus, a twenty billion dollar private equity firm that has made a ton of profit
from owning something called "The Freedom Group".
CalsTrs is the State Teacher's Retirement Service for California.
They take money out of my checks every month, set aside in a bank account for me, invested.
Our pensions fund was going to a group that invested in guns.
My initial reaction was one of disgust.
I think it's ridiculous, and I think we need to act to correct that problem immediately.
The California Teacher's Pension Fund has said they were reviewing their investment
in Cerberus Capital.
I don't want my money to go anywhere to make guns.
I was really happy to hear that CalsTrs was going to divest from Freedom Group. I really
applauded that.
That was about two years ago that the board took action to divest.
They still haven't divested, and that's the problem.
I'm incredibly shocked that we are still not divested from these companies. I don't get it.
We want some accountability in the way our money is invested. Those are OUR dollars.
If it means that we don't make as much profit, then so be it.
We have to divest, or else basically we're contradicting all the work that we do.
One way of voting is with your dollars. It sends a message of what our values are.
CalsTrs did the right thing two years ago. And now they need to seal the deal.
We don't need any more loss of lives because of this situation.
Let's put the students ahead of the dollar.
No decision is ever going to be as hard as burying your six year old.