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   Francesco Francesco’s Foundation has been created to help prevent teenage suicide through providing financial support for education in schools, where the focus will be on prevention of all types of bullying including and in particular that of the LGBTQIA+ community, education about the risks of teenagers engaging in dangerous activities on-line, education about the risks of leaving fire-arms unsecured with teenagers in the house - all of which contribute to heightening risks of teenage suicide.  Seventeen-year-old Francesco took his life with an unsecured shotgun at 2.00 am on October 21st, 2021 on a warm October evening on a moonlit beach in the Hamptons. He was discovered by the police after a call from a school friend. He had to be identified by his dentist - so devastating is the destruction from a shotgun suicide. No parent should ever have to live with that image.  The aftermath of his death has devastated his two mothers, who lived apart, family and friends...

The View Talks Gun Violence Hot Topics: Youth across the country mobilize for gun control "It's their lives at risk!" Sunny Hostin says. "They're growing up in this mass shooting age ... why can't the grown ups do something about this?" "Young people taking to the streets changes things," Goldberg says. "People can make change happen — and it's a good thing to have folks do it!" "The people who are ... at risk are the ones who take to the streets," Joy Behar says, recalling protests against the war in Vietnam: "There was an actual threat, and I think that's what these kids are responding to..." Courtesy Of: ABC / Disney  

Jean Shafiroff With Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney Jean Shafiroff was photographed with Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney at a Community Forum on gun violence protection recently. Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) joined a growing coalition of gun violence prevention advocates from Moms Demand Action, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, and Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E., as well as Organizing for Action, Hunter College President Jennifer Raab, Executive Director of Hunter College’s Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute Harold Holzer, college students, local parents, community members, Public Advocate Letitia James, State Senators Liz Krueger and Brad Hoylman, Council Members Dan Garodnick , Ben Kallos and Margaret Chin, and Deputy Commissioner of Collaborative Policing Susan Herman for a community forum on gun violence prevention.