Carolina Marinaccio

Carolina is an 8th grade student at LREI in NYC. Her topic is Gun Violence in the U.S. This topic is important to her because gun violence is a massive horrible issue that keeps happening throughout the United States.

Millions Moms March

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Yesterday my group was able to get in touch with a former LREI parent from years ago. Donna Dees, Donna Dees got in the Gun Violence movement after years ago their was a summer camp shooting where they were trying to kill the Jewish children. Donna’s daughters were around the same age as the children but they had survived. This made Donna get into the Gun Violence movement and start Millions Mom March. Which was an organization primarily made for moms who also wanted to stop gun violence. During the interview we got a lot more information, learned a lot, and heard her opinion on stuff. New York City and California actually have pretty good gun laws. And if the rest of the country had gun laws like theirs, there would be far less gun violence then their are now. Over all this interview was very informational.

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Lunch & Lobby

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For our fieldwork, we were able to get in touch for a Lunch & Lobby. Where we went on zoom and then were able to call 12 senators to convince them to pass Ethan’s Law. Ethan’s Law is a law which is trying to protect children and others from unsecured firearms. The name was named when Ethan a boy was tragically killed by an unsecured gun in 2018. The law would prevent things like this from happening again, by requiring safe gun storage. the Lunch and Lobby was run by a woman named Angela Weber who chose to get into the gun violence movement after her son survived a school shooting. As we called all the senators, we realized that not all of them would pick up. and typically we would just leave a voicemail. Some of the people in my group actually did get a hold of a senator on the phone! But sadly I was not one of those people. Overall this Lunch & Lobby was a pretty cool experience that I enjoyed doing a lot.

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