“Your Daughter Going to School”: High School Football Coach Moved to Tears While Addressing Recent Nashville School Shooting

Yet another school shooting incident left the nation horrified and begging for change. This week it was the area of Nashville that mourned the loss of six lives, including three nine-year-old kids from the traumatic episode on Monday. Georgia Tech head coach Brent Key is fed up with the gun violence and tearfully pleaded for an end to this, during his most recent press conference.

The Covenant Presbyterian School in Nashville turned into a battlefield of chaos and cries as a former 28-year-old student opened fire with two assault-style rifles and a handgun on the premises. And for Brent, the tragedy hit home more since he has a schoolteacher for a mother and a school-going daughter at home.

Brent Key breaks down after the Nashville shooting

Police eventually gunned down the shooter in what has been revealed as the 89th mass shooting incident at a K-12 school, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. However, not before the loss of six innocent lives. President Joe Biden called the incident “sick” as raging debates carry on across the country surrounding gun safety and mass shootings, especially in schools.

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Brent Key didn’t want to dwell on various political and religious arguments involved in the media headlines. However, he hopes for some change. “My mom was a third-grade schoolteacher her whole career. I have a four-year-old daughter. She is about to be five and was at a school play when that happened. I can’t even like, the whole rest of the day, my wife cried four or five times during the day,” Key said in his Wednesday press conference.

“Something has to change,” he added. “Please, do something. Whoever listens to this, send it somewhere else. Send it to somebody. Let’s all do something together to help. This is the most heartbreaking thing in the world, to think about your daughter going to school, where she is supposed to be safe and protected,” Key said.

Key wasn’t the only one to address the shooting

Many in the NFL and college football world left their condolences for the lost lives in the shooting. This included the Tennessee Titans organization releasing an official statement after the shooting. The franchise has been key in building the Nashville community stronger over the years. Titans running back Derrick Henry also tweeted, heartbroken and frustrated.

The University of Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel brought the Green Hills area tragedy up during his presser this week. “It’s hard to put into words, as a parent with two of my own, how that happens,” Heupel said while leaving his prayers for the families of those affected.

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The authorities in Nashville have to be extra alert in the coming time after investigations confirmed a manifesto and plan in the works for a second attack. The footballing world will continue to pray for the ones lost and the ones fighting the current shooting epidemic.