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Hello everyone. I hope you're doing well.

My name is Eddie Coffee and I'll be making a presentation on gun lands.

Social media's effects on advocacy.

Mm hmm.

Guns have become a part of the lives of many americans today.

There are several reasons for which people choose to own and use guns,

be it for protection, recreation

or part of their occupation.

There are others who have acquired guns to

perpetrate crimes such as robberies and killings.

In recent times.

However,

there has been a rise in gun related

crimes around cities including the city of Atlanta.

It has become the new norm to hear of incidents of gun violence

in the news. Every week,

many men, women and Children

regardless of age and race

have been injured or lost their lives as a result of them violence.

According to reports Weekly report put forth

in august by the Atlanta Police Department,

The number of shooting incidents and current seven days is 17.

This number compared to 13 incidents from the previous week

shows an increase in cases of gun violence in the community.

Also, the number of students from the previous year to date was 408.

Whereas the number of shootings from the beginning of this year, today is 527

from the report,

There has been about a 29% rise in shooting incidents in

the city of Atlanta as compared to the previous year.

Man,

according to an article written by

Justin Great, an investigative reporter for WSB- TV,

he stayed at that shootings were already up 50% this year.

This article shows just how much of an increase that

has been in gun related crimes compared to other years.

Yeah,

okay.

Haven't identified the present problems in Atlanta.

There is the need for a new lodge is um like gun lens,

gun lances derived from combining the words gun and violence.

It describes the prevalence and in Sudan rise of gun violence within the community.

Being able to put a name to the problem is the

first step towards finding lasting solutions to this social can come

the word gun lens allows community members to identify what

the causes of the problem within the community is,

how it's affecting individuals and societies adversely

and to come up with community measures that can help reduce the problem

continue.

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okay,

Yeah,

there are many ways

in which the issue of gun violence can be resolved. We need the city of Atlanta,

one of which is creating awareness and advocacy on mental health

members of the community needs to be enlightened on mental

health issues and how they can result in gun violence.

Creating awareness on proper and anger management skills

and accessibility to mental health care

will help guarantee that people are better equipped to handle their emotions

and thereby refrain from resorting to gun violence at the slightest provocation

in an article posted by the anti Kasey Foundation,

it is suggested that leaders in the community needed to create opportunities

for community members to address trauma

and atone for wrongdoings through healing circles

in which people in which peers and people provide emotional support.

During facilitated meetings,

the Foundation recommended that city leaders create support groups and

make it easy for members to access these resources.

These groups can help members improve

upon their mental health communication skills

and how they respond in high conflict situations.

Another measure that can help reduce the rate of gun

violence in the city of Atlanta is human resource development

in a journal written by brian knows Charles. It's all

they recommended that

city leaders initiate programs that can help in developing

talents and skills of members of the community.

The authors suggested that the programs include

community led initiatives such as Youth Development,

career services and programs in Art

that also improved the lives of citizens in important ways.

These programs can help the city generate resources to improve infrastructure,

housing, schools and jobs,

a better community creates a feeling of safety

community connection

as well as reduces stress levels among members of the community.

Safe neighborhoods are likely to help reduce

incidents of gun crimes within the community.

Lastly,

there is the need to create more street outreach programs such as cure Violence,

Atlanta and Youth Alive.

These programs in a training community members and public health workers

to mediate and help de escalate conflicts within the community,

especially when gun violence is involved

and the article posted by the Anasazi Foundation.

It suggests that that community the community support violence interventions,

including cure violence programs that rely on citizens

with life experience and strong community ties known as

credible messengers,

okay,

who can intervene when violence or retaliation is likely to or care.

These programs will help ensure that these

trained workers can identify conflicts within the community

and immediately step into account situations and help ensure the parties involved

do not resort to the use of gun and resolving conflicts.

These programs can also provide support for gun

violence victims to help them deal effectively with the

trauma they've gone through so they are less

likely to retaliate with gun violence as well.

After coining gun lens,

there was the need to find out people's opinions and feedback on gun lands

maybe.

Yeah.

Okay,

in a book written by Peggy Parks,

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social media plays a critical role in

connecting people and allowing them to learn more

about new friends

applying this concept,

I decided to use social media specifically instagram to implement gun lens

Within the period of two weeks.

Over 200 people,

Excuse me?

Over 200 people,

we're exposed to gun lines.

Mhm.

With some, even

As you can see from this chart, over 200 people had viewed it.

Um

Hold on a sec, let me just go back here. Yeah.

Over 200 people had viewed gun lines and although the number did trickle down you

can see that quite a large number of people had been exposed to the word and

had some form of knowledge about what it was and there

were even some that agreed to use it in conversations.

Yeah,

another book by authors, joseph devotees and Sasso Petro

while pictures, while these pictures tweets or videos may raise awareness about

social issues,

social media.

The use of social media importantly creates

an environment in which participation is socially desirable

and from the charts it can be seen that over 40 people

like gun lines and connected with it,

the number did reduce as well.

But in all in general you can see that a lot of people liked it.

A lot of people liked what the idea stood about,

all the ideas stood for and could connect, connect with the word in some way.

Excuse me,

excuse me.

This graph also shows just some amount of people that liked it

Over the course of the two weeks

sport,

there were others who also shared the post. The post that I made

on social media. There are the people that shared it on their pages.

They liked the comments officiated

and that also exposed it to a new set of people which would not

have been possible had Hi Dina used social media and implementing my neologism.

Mhm

Another thing that also helped was how well gunman's did when it was implemented

was the fact that I varied the kind of examples that I used,

I used posts

what means post with words and videos as well

as opposed to try to gather more engagement and to

get more people to interact and be exposed to gun

lands and overall the feedback I got was very,

very

um engaging and very supportive as well as

people being very interested in what gun less was and what God has stood for.

Yeah.

It can therefore be said that without the use of gun lands,

I would not have been able to reach as many people as I did.

Yeah.

During the implementation phase,

my circle, my inner circle of the people that I know is very limited.

But with the help of social media, I was able to reach multiple people,

multiple people from all walks of life, from all ranges of people, sorry,

multiple people from many different places, some from Ghana Nigeria at the U.

S the U K

china Germany, just to mention a few.

The word was able to spread out that much and to

get to these people and this would not have been possible

had I not implemented my neologism on social media.

So it can therefore be said that social media is an effective platform

for act for reaching people and for activism just because

it allows to

just a minute.

Social media allows for a wider range of people to be exposed to gun lands and as such.

Be able to use it interacts with the word and spread the word as much as possible.

And so it can be said that social media is an

effective tool tools advocating and spreading words about social issues.

Okay.

Some works I used during my research was um,

reports from the Atlanta Police Department,

um, articles from articles by Briana's Charles.

It'll devotees joseph and peer through successive,

um, Justin gray Peggy parks and the Anasazi Foundation.

Yeah,

Thank you all for listening to my presentation.

Kindly

leave your comments and thoughts and what you think of it and

have a good evening. Thank you.

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