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Santa Fe High School senior Wesley Hill was in first period when his teacher told the class there was an active shooter on campus and ordered them to hide. Less than 30 minutes later, 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis was in custody as ten students lay dead and at least ten others injured.

For the next 72 hours Wesley documented for VICE News what it's like when it happens at your school and in your town.

Like the students in Parkland, Florida, Wesley and his friends say they never really thought this would happen at their school, but unlike the Parkland attack, this shooting has not become a rallying cry for gun control.

This is Texas, after all. And Santa Fe, with a population of 13,000, is the definition of small-town Texas.

“The first person that reached out to me when they saw I was on the news was March For Our Lives Houston,” Wesley said. “I straight up told them right then and there that they’re reaching out to the wrong people. I said this is Santa Fe. This is not a city. this is a small town, country town. I said you’re not gonna take our guns away.”

“We don’t need gun control,” Wesley’s friend Toby Fulmer added. “What we need is someone doing better background checks on the people who are buying the guns. Maybe do some mental stable checks. But people who say we need gun control are, I’m not gonna call them idiots, but they are idiots."

Fulmer added, "We’re a tight-knit community. Mostly everybody here hunts, shoots, they do some kind of something with guns. And if you take that away? What are we gonna do?”

Wesley’s mother, Tiffany Hill, also thinks more guns and better parenting is the answer. “Arm the teachers. It doesn’t have to be every single teacher in every single classroom. It doesn’t," she said. "But, you know, if we’re going to ask these teachers to parent our children, then we need to ask them to protect those same children.”

One thing the students in Santa Fe and the students in Parkland do have in common: A tragedy has made their community known for something it doesn’t want to be known for.

“You know the crazy thing was nobody knew where Santa Fe was,” Wesley said. “I tell people I’m from Santa Fe and they looked at me — New Mexico? No, Texas people, Texas. There is a Santa Fe in Texas. I liked being under the radar in a small town where nobody knew where it was at.”

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Police in several cities across the U.S. are trying to put a stop to the groups of men waging paintball battles as a part of #PaintballsUpGunsDown — an anti-gun violence campaign police are calling misguided.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig said the #PaintballsUpGunsDown movement has gotten out of control and could backfire if officers mistake a paintball gun for a real firearm.

The grassroots movement first gained traction on social media in early April as a proposed way to resolve conflicts with paint instead of bullets. Since then, participants from Atlanta to Detroit have engaged in full blown paintball wars on city streets, with as many as 50 shooters taking aim at each other at once, hitting innocent bystanders and marking up cars and homes.

Over the last week, police in Detroit started making arrests for destruction of property. Paintballers say they're being targeted for being young and black and that cleaning up paint is a lot better than picking up dead bodies.

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Hair braiders in many states across the country are at constant risk of massive fines and losing their jobs.The primary reason: state cosmetology boards. Over the past several decades, these boards have lobbied to require licensing for braiding services, despite offering little training in the discipline or justifying why a non-invasive, non-chemical method needs to be so heavily regulated. Now hair braiders and politicians are fighting back against policies they claim disproportionately affect immigrant women of color. VNT goes to one of the states at the center of the debate: New Jersey.

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This is the May 9, 2018 FULL EPISODE of VICE News Tonight on HBO.

2:06 It’s drawing plenty of criticism from other countries, too -- including the UK, France and Germany -- but there’s one government that’s especially happy about the deal: Israel.

5:36 Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti released a document that focuses on Michael Cohen's company, and what it alleges looks bad for the Trump team.

10:14 The rate of suicide among veterans is rising, and the government is struggling to provide help. VICE News examines the Cohen Veteran Network, an organization opening private mental health clinics across the country.

16:05 #PaintballsUpGunsDown, while a well-intentioned way to reduce gun violence in Detroit, is seen as misguided by the police. Groups of young men are waging running paintball battles across Detroit, aiming to reduce gang violence by giving them something else to do.

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This is the May 10, 2018 FULL EPISODE of VICE News Tonight on HBO.

2:08 The state department doesn't publish details about where hostages are being held abroad by news reports, public statements from hostages families, and hints from the government suggest we still have hostages in at least 7 countries.

4:55 Iraqis are preparing to head to the polls this Saturday for the country’s parliamentary elections. Security is the primary concern of many voters. VICE News visits a Mosul police station to see how they work with the community to eradicate remaining ISIS fighters from the city.

11:08 Many of the workers at Disneyland Anaheim are struggling to make ends meet, pay rent or put food on the table. So they decided to unionize.

17:30 The House Democrats released the entirety of the more than 3500 Facebook ads bought by the Russian-backed internet research agency.

20:16 Esports is projected to be a billion-dollar industry by next year. But it hasn’t quite caught on at the college sports level -- only about 60 schools in the U.S. have varsity level teams.

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