“I’m sick of holding my breath,” one mom said.Zachary SchermeleKayla JimenezN’dea Yancey-BraggUSA TODAY
Sept 5
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Sending her daughter to school the day after a shooting in the South – where more people are gun owners than in other parts of the country, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center – was “a little terrifying,” Maxwell said.
“It’s really overwhelming to have someone so tiny who you love so much in a world that is really petrifying as a parent,” she said.
Maxwell works with Project Unloaded, an organization that collaborates with teens to create social media campaigns about gun prevention. She said many parents think “it will never be their kids who do something dangerous with a gun” in their home. Yet she hopes that fewer parents take the chance and that the shooting in Georgia inspires them to secure their firearms properly or to not own them at all.