What this presentation is for... My rabbi tasked me with presenting about gun control to a group of 8th graders. I was to present immediately after 2 men from the NRA present. This is the presentation I created that hit the 8th graders emotionally through information. Having age-appropriate, yet informational ways of conveying important topics to SARites, and letting them pick their stance on it, is an incredibly valuable skill that programmers should possess. I use this as my supplement because it shows a personal stance on an issue, tries to inspire uneducated or undecided people to pick a stance, and includes a call to action. Gun Control is Extremely Important!!!
(I can not stress that enough) Gun Control Merriam-Webster: regulation of the selling, owning, and use of guns
Important Note March for our Lives and most educated people who were sparked by the events on February 14th aim for gun control, NOT to ban guns entirely by any means. Questions!!!
● Who goes to Camp Coleman? ● Does anyone know what happened on Valentine’s Day of 2018? Video
➔ https://youtu.be/XPLq1Hk3nuU Eden Hebron and Victoria Gonzalez’s Stories
Eden: “Fear took over my mind, shock took over my body, and Alyssa’s worried face took over my eyes. Two feet between me and my friend. And 20 seconds between life and death. I am 2 feet away from the nearest person, but we will be together again soon. More gunshots, I hear. And they get closer, and closer. Until that loud sound I heard was coming from the door of my classroom. The glass of our door breaks. It shatters. Along with my innocence and safety. Every gunshot I heard was the sound of my brain going deeper and deeper into a shock. My body was there, under a table, fearing for my life. But my mind was still in my desk, next to the door, laughing with Alyssa. I look at my friend. And within seconds, Alyssa is struck with bullets. She is dying. My friend, who I was talking with two minutes before, is dying.”
Victoria: “I can’t be as loud as I want to be right now. So I’m not going to stop there yet, but I definitely plan to. I’m just not ready yet. We just clicked right away. You know, kind of corny like love at first sight but I swear, I swear." MY STORY February 14th, 2018, I was walking out of school from the top floor of the new building, down the main stairwell when I decided to check Facebook. I saw several posts from my friends of police cars outside of a school. “Oh another school shooting,” I thought as I turned off my phone and continued toward my bus. Once I was on my bus, I saw that my GroupMe was blown up. Hundreds of messages from people all along the East coast sending prayers to our friends who attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. I got home and laid down on the floor, further investigating what had happened and watching videos taken from inside the school. My mom begged me to stop watching, but I couldn’t. There were too many unknowns. How many fatalities? Were they my friends? Are they safe? I texted one of my friends in particular to ask if she was okay, only to get a response hours full of worry and picking at food later. That night, I emailed my principal to address safety at my school, but, I must say, this is the smallest impact that day made on my life. That night consisted of endless tears, listening to “It’s Quiet Uptown” from Hamilton, and a stream of texts from other Atlanta friends that consisted of the names confirmed dead. It was terribly hard to sleep that night, just as it is tonight. The next morning I looked at Lori Alhadeff, Alyssa Alhadeff’s mother’s, Facebook page. Devastated from the day before, she needed change and she needed it now. It’s hard to describe my relationship with Alyssa. Whenever I go to the summer camp that connects us, I can feel her presence. I slept in the same cabin as she did, I have the same friends as she did, I ate the same food, I did the same activities, I cared about the same things. And when all those things are put together, it is sickeningly easy to realize that I could have been shot and killed in my school that day. That February 15th, I left class to call one of my Atlanta friends in the hallway. School felt surreal. I felt unsafe. I watched as the strongest people I know struggled to find security in their schools that day. In the hallway, a teacher approached me. I explained my situation and I was told to go back to my classroom. Within the next hour and a half I had lunch. I remember so clearly seeing my two best friends enter that lunch, knowing what had happened, running up to me and drowning me in hugs and care. I began to cry and they took me out of the cafeteria. I was sick to my stomach as I saw the mourner’s kadish posted every night. But, through all this, I saw good things growing. Parkland made me take a step back to reflect on life. I watched as March for Our Lives Atlanta and my school’s walkout became realities to remember Alyssa, I realized that I wanted to live for Alyssa and make the most of every day I have on this messed up planet. I reached out to my school friends and ended up making the best friends I could ever imagine and a pretty damn great boyfriend who’s a total goof nut and a total sweetie. I saw Alyssa’s legacy impact people’s lives across the country as we stood hand in hand to raise awareness for gun violence. But now, looking back at these 6 months, I see that sadly nothing has changed. We have become more educated and we have heard countless promises from our president that never came true. This November, we vote. And we vote orange. The people in this country who have never voted before have found this issue more important than any other and have decided to vote for it. Hopefully, through this, we will see change. “So what? Gun control doesn’t matter!” -My friend because I told him to say that ➔ Countries with gun control in place do have a higher rate of knife violence, BUT the death rate is significantly lower (130 homicides by gun in Canada in 2016 as compared to the US’ 13,000 in 2015)
➔ Conservatives tend to defend the second amendment by saying that Founding Fathers also wrote the free speech amendment without thinking about internet
➔ “No violent act comes before violent thought”
➔ Black market
➔ Give teachers gun What Can I Do?
Talk to teachers and Take a role in March for our Stay aware and educated, parents Lives then educate others around you