What Every Parent Needs To Understand About School Shootings & Lockdowns with David Riedman

The Mother of it All

1×

0:00

-55:12

What Every Parent Needs To Understand About School Shootings & Lockdowns with David Riedman

“We used to think it was a given that an airplane would crash every year. That doesn't happen anymore. We don't need to accept that every day in this country there's going to be a school shooting.”

, and

Oct 14, 2024

No one wants to think about school shootings. But nearly every day in our country, a gun is fired on a campus. Often, when that happens, entire student bodies are then traumatized by spending hours in lockdown.

David Riedman

of the K-12 school shooting database — an unparalleled collection of data about school shootings that has been used as a resource by publications like The Economist and New York Times, as well as organizations like the FBI— joins Sarah and Miranda to talk about the thing none of us want to talk about but that we absolutely must: American school’s gun violence problem.

Links:

Discussion about this podcast

The Mother of it All

We are Miranda Rake and Sarah Wheeler, two friends, mothers and professional writers on the parenting beat. The Mother of it All is our place to go deep into the culture of modern motherhood and have the conversations that truly challenge, feed and excite us. Expect warmth, humor and over-considered takes on hot topics, fresh takes on old ones, expert guests and good times. We're diving into the grey areas beyond the tropes — the wine moms, the rage moms, the anything moms — and instead spending real time with the ideas that help us grow as mothers and people in this cultural moment.

Listen on