The Guardian’s parenting WhatsApp group discusses the recent spate of school shootings and political violence – and how they explain it to their kids
“I have been emotionally at my wit’s end with the violence.”
Gabriela Rangel is a glass dispatch coordinator in California City, California, and mother to a five-year-old. Like many parents across the nation, she was horrified to learn about the 27 August shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured.
Gabriela is one of 10 parents who joined a WhatsApp group to regularly chat with Guardian journalists about how it feels to raise kids now. Less than two weeks after the mass shooting in Minneapolis, Charlie Kirk was shot at the University of Utah. On the same day, another school shooting occurred in Evergreen, Colorado.
The Guardian asked the parents about their experiences amid so much school and political violence.
