Name: Wally Condos

Social Justice Group: 2023-2024, Gun Violence Epidemic: NYC and USA

Date of Fieldwork: January 19, 2024

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Marika Condos

Type of Fieldwork: [69]

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?:

Our fieldwork with Marika helped me and my group learn a lot about the mental health side of gun violence. She helped us learn that connecting gun violence and mental health is not the right thing to do. And people thinking that people who have mental health issues are violent, are straight up wrong, and just making unknowlegable inference. She shared chilling and scary facts about the truth of suicide as well and just how common it is, as six out of every ten gun deaths in the U.S.A are suicide, 68 suicides happen a day in the U.S.A alone.

Here is a quote from her that sums up a lot of what she said in my opinion, this is what she said, “The vast majority of gun violence is not perpetuated by people with mental ilness.” Both Gun violence and mental illnes are both national problems. And at that very big ones, as many die from both each and everyday. So in conclusion this fieldwork helped us learn a whole lot!