2158, a law requiring the Texas Education Agency to “provide identification kits to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools for distribution to the parent or legal custodian of certain students.” The law passed after eight students and two teachers were shot and killed inside Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, and almost a year before 19 fourth-graders and two teachers were gunned down inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.The three-fold pamphlets allow caregivers to store their children’s DNA and fingerprints at home, which could then be turned over to law enforcement agencies in the event of an “emergency.” According to the legislation mandating the kits be provided to qualifying Texas families, the fingerprint and DNA verification kits were intended to “help locate and return a missing or trafficked child.” In the wake of the second deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history and the botched police response that left 19 students and two teachers dead, Texas parents are apprehensive about the kits and the message some are saying it sends to Texas families.Parents of school kids should be worrying about (parent-teacher organization) sign-up sheets and grades and if their kid likes whatever they’re serving in the cafeteria that day, not their child’s murder and if they’re shot so many times their body cannot be identified.” Aarons has two children, ages 18 and 20, who attended Texas public schools from the time they were in kindergarten until they graduated high school.She said she’s grateful her children will not be sent home with DNA and fingerprint kits, and said she “can’t imagine the panic and anxiety parents face sending their kids to school every day not knowing if they’ll return.” “It’s astounding, to realize that not only has the state of Texas done absolutely nothing to protect our kids and teachers, they’ve taken the callous, heartless, cruel measure to send DNA test kits so we can identify their bodies if or when they’re victims of a massacre,” Aarons added.“It sends the message that guns are more important than us.” In June, Emily Westbrooks and her family moved to Texas from Ireland, where she said “gun violence is negligible and sending children to school wasn’t a daily terror.” “It infuriates me that these kits are being sent to families in lieu of any concrete action to prevent such terrorizing tragedies from occurring,” said Westbrooks, who has a 5-year-old in kindergarten and a 7-year-old in first grade."