Opinion by Tess Taylor
Updated 11:47 AM ET, Tue March 17, 2020
(CNN)2019 and 2020 had already been difficult years, crisis and adrenaline wise, in our household. During the summer, when I was a visiting poet at a residency out of state, an angry, confused woman wandered into my class and said: "I have three guns and I want to use 'em." We all froze. It wasn't totally clear if she had the guns, and in this world, at this moment, it didn't have to be. We each know that, when we teach in America, we are already in danger.