Gun Violence Prevention Imagine Stage

 

One idea that we had to address this epidemic of gun violence was to work with existing groups that already had ideas, and elaborate on them. We worked with Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E., an organization that already had an idea for stopping the illegal gun pipeline in their neighborhood by working with the police to watch certain stores that were on their watchlist. We were also strong supporters of a law called Nicholas’s Law, which is a law that has in Saratoga Springs, New York which requires gun owners with children to lock up their unloaded guns in their house. Another idea that we had was to hand out flyers in Bryant Park that told people to call the White House and demand stronger gun laws. Those flyers helped pass the executive orders that President Obama signed into action in January of this year. One solution that we thought that we could definitely take on was the flyer solution, and we did take it on. We didn’t quite expect to have the effect that we had, but we definitely got our goal accomplished. Another solution that we thought that we could be involved with was the neighborhood monitoring solution. Although we didn’t work with this solution, we strongly supported this solution.

 

Will

Hello, my name is Will Bompey, and I am an eighth grader at Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School. My group's topic is gun violence prevention. I chose this topic because I feel like there are too many massacres, and we are becoming numb to that as a society. 

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