“None of us are done with Aug. 27,” Brittany Haeg told a room of parents last week.

They had gathered at a south Minneapolis business, where they now meet regularly since a mass shooting rocked their community three months ago Thursday. A shooter killed two children and injured 28 other people during Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church and School that day.

The parents of Annunciation students formed a coalition to push for change after the tragedy. About 60 people take part, according to an organizer.

Ahead of Thanksgiving, Haeg — a former social studies educator — led the coalition’s first in-person training on having difficult conversations around gun violence.

“This is, on one hand, a deeply divisive issue,” Haeg told MPR News. “On the other hand ... I’ve never found someone who do

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