Being a millennial, I am growing up in a time in America's history in which mass shootings and attacks, whether it be by people of foreign countries or from our own country, are unfortunately common. I remember my mom picking me up from preschool when the 9/11 attack happened. I remember fearing movie theaters after the "Batman" shooting in Colorado in 2012. I remember walking into my high school sophomore English class to the newscast of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. I remember seeing gruesome images of people injured in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.

These are just a few of the tragedies that the United States has suffered through in recent years. It is nearly impossible to to turn on the TV or go on the Internet without there being a story about a new shooting. It seems that the minute the momentum of one attack dies down, another one seems to take place.

My generation is growing up in an environment in which such horrible events occur on a daily basis. We are no longer shocked by these events because they are so frequent, and we are confused why nothing has been done to stop them. We are used to the unusual.

Unfortunately, and most importantly, America's fragile state only seems to be getting worse. This summer America has been subject to an LGBT attack in an Orlando nightclub and racial attacks on the police in both Dallas and Baton Rouge among many others.

I speak for all millennials when I say that we are angry. No place seems safe anymore, so how are we supposed to live our lives carefree? My generation is preparing to enter the real world in the next few years and to be quite honest, being an adult in a country with so much violence is a scary thought.

Though there really is no clear answer to the problem, and no government is perfect, all we can do is hope for change.