Good grief. It is simply insane that children and parents have to think like that in America.
Sorry for you. What a terrible political party the GOP is.
[Sadly, I kinda gave up on the idea that America would cure itself by restricting access to guns after Sandy Hook. If that didn't do it, nothing will. Solving the issue is something that has been done everywhere else - lately in NZ. It seems the US is just going to be a country in which you are maybe 100 times more likely to die from gun violence than any other first world country.]