Capital Gazette, Md. Reporter: *This Is America. Do Something About It*
- By Selene San Felice, Capital Gazette Reporter:
I watched John McNamara die. I had to step over Wendi Winters to escape. I said "f_" on CNN.
If you're upset about the expletive and not that someone killed almost every editor at The Capital - five people who were deeply loved and irreplaceable - you are not an American.
If your help ends at thoughts and prayers, I don't want them. What I want is action.
I'm not just talking to the president, or our governor, or our elected officials. I'm talking to every single person in this nation. We must do better. We must vote better. We must push for legislation so that this doesn't feel normal.
Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, Wendi Winters, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and thousands of people are dead because of shootings like the one I lived through.
The man who killed the people I love bought his gun legally. His record of stalking and harassment had been expunged. But even if it hadn't been, he still could have bought the gun he used to shoot Rebecca, Wendi, Rob, Gerald and John.
He was legally allowed to plot our deaths and trap us like fish in a barrel...
President Donald Trump spoke at the White House Friday, just before I attended a vigil for my friends. "Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job," he said before the crowd applauded. Last year, he called journalists just like us "the enemy of the people."
Two days before my peers were murdered, alt-right leader Milo Yiannopoulos wrote in a text, "I can't wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight." Now that my friends are dead, he said he was just trolling...
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Annapolis, Md., residents gather for a candlelight vigil across the street from where five journalists were slain Thursday at their newspaper office in Annapolis, Friday, June 29, 2018. Prosecutors say 38-year-old Jarrod W. Ramos opened fire Thursday in the Capital Gazette newsroom.