There have been 22 college shootings within the United States for the reason that begin of 2019.

That’s the form of quantity that the mind instinctively recoils from. But it’s additionally a hideously indisputable fact, one which the children in America’s faculties proper now have been compelled to internalize in a means that may be exhausting for adults of an earlier, much less violent period to understand. Hence, presumably, the above video from advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise, which makes an attempt—with cheerful monologues, smiling youngsters, and a gentle escalation of dread—to depict the ways in which violence can intrude upon and taint the common college day routine, and even, in its personal grim means, turn out to be a part of that routine itself. It is expertly acted, upsettingly crafted, and a vicious punch to the intestine. It’s the kind of video that first makes you suppose, “I wish I hadn’t watched that,” after which, instantly, “I wish this was a world where a video like that didn’t need to be watched.”

“Back-To-School Essentials” is the most recent and most formidable program from the non-profit group, named for the 2012 killings at a Connecticut elementary college. (You might or might not bear in mind it; it was, in any case, actually tons of of college shootings in the past.) The group’s targets are holistic in nature: By elevating consciousness of the commonplace methods college shootings have infiltrated American life, they hope to push individuals to work on options that forestall the situations that result in mass violence within the first place. The group’s said targets do not, because it occur, embody complete gun management measures, though in the event you can watch the above video and never really feel the utter horror brought on by America’s rampant epidemic of gun violence deep in your bones, you’re product of sterner, and much colder, stuff than us.