My group interviewed Donna Dees, she works with The Brady Campain and founded of Million Moms March, which is one of Americas largest Gun Control March. We interviewed her about her current work with the Brady Campaign. Throughout this interview, told us some staggering numbers and information about gun violence and gun violence control. She told us about a few crazy laws that were, if a criminal got a gun from a state with poor background checks, they could now legally bring that gun to time square. Obama couldn’t get as much as he wanted done, because he was working with a fairly republican congress, but Trump, being very conservative is going to get a lot done with a republican-heavy congress. This, quite frankly just scares me. This struck me hard, at first Trump becoming president, was more or less a running joke, and a lot young eligible voters didn’t vote, because they were very cocky, and ignorant. As a gun violence provention group, Trump winning is worse case scenario, but honestly, it pushes me to work harder. It makes we want to go out and do things to help in any way I can. And although the next 4-8 years might be tough on gun violence prevention orgizations, they inspire me, because they just don’t give up.
