On Wednesday, February 17th, we had a phone conversation with the director of CAGV. In our conversation we discussed the work we had completed and learned what the CAGV does. Connecticut is the state with the second strongest gun laws. CAGV has lobbied for legislation that makes it difficult for Connecticut citizens to illegally obtain guns.…
In late January 2016, our social justice group, Stop the Shots, organized an assembly that was in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for a peaceful and equal America. The focus of the assembly was gun violence prevention. We showed a portion of President Obama’s speech on his Executive Order to increase background checks.…
In December my social justice group had a conference call with Joseph Blocher, a professor from Duke University. He had recently written an op-ed on the recent demonstrations supporting being allowed on college campuses. In his opinion, this was a dangerous precedent that he did not support at all. His op-ed was interesting as it…
Kim Russell is currently head of the Manhattan chapter of the Brady Campaign. The Brady Campaign is a organization that works to prevent gun violence. It was named after James Brady, Ronald Reagan’s Press secretary. He was severely injured during the attempted assassination on Reagan. She works tirelessly on these issues and tries to get legislators to…
We meat with lea gunn barrett. She is the executive director of the organization, NYAGV. New Yorkers against gun violence. Tough we talked briefly she told us a lot about what she is doing. She is trying to get signatures from our parent bored for a law that is intended to make you lock up…
My social justice members and I went to Bryant park to help the Moms demand action organization. We were handing out flyers that had the information of our goal witch was to get people to text or call the white house and get Obama to make striker Gun laws. As we were doing this it…
On November 11th my Social Justice group met with Donna Dees. She started the Million Mom March, which brought moms across the country together to protest gun violence. The march happened on the Mall in Washington D.C. on May 14, 2000. The date was placed on May 14th so that it could be in line…
Our first field work was watching a movie, Living for 32. We watched it on November second. It was about Colin Goddard. He was a victim of the Virginia tech shooting. He was shot four times, as said in the movie. I learned a lot about how gun victim feel, witch made it more personal.…
