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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ava Macha

Inside a US parents’ group chat about raising kids in violent times

Graphic illustration of memorial to school shooting victims, and Charlie Kirk
The Guardian asked the parents about their experiences amid so much school and political violence. Illustration: Guardian Design/Source photos via Getty Images

“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.

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