Dear Senator Rubio,

Let me first start by introducing myself. My name is Olivia McCourry and I am a freshman at the University of Oklahoma. I am writing to you today in response to your answers and comments given at the town hall meeting broadcasted by CNN this past Wednesday.

The first thing I want to say is that you being there meant something. It meant that at least someone came to listen to the survivors and their families from Broward County, Florida. I noticed you had a lot of praise after the meeting for showing up and listening. However, isn't that your job? You shouldn't be thanked every time you decide to show up even though someone else didn't. The other two congressmen who were there on Wednesday were not shown nearly enough praise as you did and they too were just doing their jobs. You were voted in to do something specific, and that is to listen to the American people and I don't think you need to be praised for something you chose to do as your profession.

Second, Your generation has no idea what it's like to go to school and wonder if today is the day your school will be chosen for the next school shooting. Maybe this why you have been so reluctant to pass gun laws in this country, but I hope now you'll start taking this into consideration. You haven't had to sit in a locked classroom with the lights off, while a student is chased through the building by police for possibly being armed. He wasn't, but he did have a weapon in his car. Others have you seen, have not been so lucky. You don't understand what kind of fear that is, and I hope you never will.

Third and finally, How dare you. How dare you look Cameron Kasky in the face and not say you won't take any more donations from the NRA. You say they pay for "your agenda" or have you forgotten, your so-called agenda is the PEOPLE'S AGENDA. You were voted in office by PEOPLE to serve the PEOPLE. Also, if the NRA is giving you money doesn't that mean that "Your agenda" includes NOT passing gun control laws? They are giving you money in hope that you help THEM achieve their goals. The money you take comes with strings attached and more lives lost.

I may seem like a nobody from Oklahoma, whose opinion you probably won't care about, but I have a voice and I am using it now to speak my mind and spark change.