Mom and Mass Shooting Survivor Ashbey Beasley on Why She Crashed a Live Nashville Press Conference

glamour.com:

from.It was a tragic twist of irony that brought Beasley to this press conference in the first place. She’d been on her way to lunch with friend Shaundelle Brooks, a fellow mother and advocate whose son was killed in a Waffle House mass shooting in 2018, when Brooks called her in a panic, she tells Glamour.

Brooks had gotten a call from her surviving son that his high school, just blocks from The Covenant School, was on lockdown.

Beasley offered to come and meet her but, unable to enter the high school, the two made their way to the scene of Monday’s shooting, which is where Beasley encountered the news conference. “I think I just got to a point where I was done,” Beasley tells me over the phone on Tuesday evening. “I'm just like, I'm done.

I feel like we aren't having the right conversations, we're not having conversations at all. And I just was like, I'm going to start this conversation.” In 2023 alone, there have been 130 mass shootings, according to the , which have killed 193 people.