As part of Teen Vogue's Beyond Thoughts and Prayers series, we spoke to young people affected by gun violence who still have relatives who are still pro-gun. ⬇️
— with her 17th birthday only a week away. Extended family, including a National Rifle Association member, had come to the Schentrup house to help with cleaning and making meals when no one else could bring themselves to do so. “It was really nice,” Schentrup remembers.
Schentrup was 200 miles away at college when he heard a shooting was occurring at the high school he had graduated from the year before, where his two younger sisters — Carmen, a senior, and Evelyn, a freshman — were still in school. He immediately texted his sisters and parents to check in. His first thought was that the shooting was a tragedy, of course, but his sisters surely had to be fine — this couldn’t happen to his family.
Losing his sister was a tragedy in itself, but to lose her in such a violent, public way was difficult for Schentrup to understand. Carmen had loved school and was dedicated to scholastic achievement. In the last year of her life, she had been hyper-focused on getting into college and one day becoming a medical researcher. Says Schentrup, “It was really hard for me to grapple with the fact that she was someone who had spent a lot of time in pursuit of something she will never achieve.
Kelsey, who asked to use a pseudonym to protect her privacy, thought her dad would change his pro-gun views when her ex-boyfriend turned abusive and violent after their breakup. Kelsey says her ex stalked her, showing up at her workplace and church. She says, too, that he threatened to “bring a gun to school and commit Columbine.”
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