America’s gun violence has changed the way we parent [washingtonpost.com]

Parents do what they can to keep their children safe from all sorts of dangers. We lock them in car seats, make them wear helmets. We teach them how to cross a street safely. But many feel powerless when it comes to gun violence. They don’t know if their teen might get caught up in a fight that involves a gun instead of a fist. They don’t know if their child might go to first grade and lose their life to a semiautomatic weapon of war.