Family members of some of the Pulse attack victims and survivors  have been channeling their grief into legislative action against firearms. Amanda Alvear snapchatted her last moments at Pulse night club.

Mother Mayra Alvear  said, “She used to love going to the nightclub.'Mommy this is a great place. I am going with my friends and we all have a great time.'”

Alvear said that she does not want to ever relive June 12, 2016. Alvear said “The life of my daughter and everybody else's’ is irreplaceable,”. She drives from Tampa to Kissimmee every  Thursday to get together with the family members of other Pulse victims.

Rosemary Ramos  said, “Seeing his friends there be killed, you know it's not easy. You see that everyday and every night when you go to sleep, when you wake up. You only sleep a couple of hours and that’s it.”

For them it’s a coping mechanism. But now they want to do more than just sit and talk. They have been fighting for gun law reform. Alvear said,  “We want justice for them. We don't want this just to be forgotten, we want to fight for our kids.”

They even created a video, asking congress to ban military assault weapons. They specifically talked about the AR-15 rifle, a semi-automatic rifle based off a military weapon. While the AR-15 has been a primary weapon in many recent mass shootings, it was not used in the Pulse attack.

That weapon was the Sig Sauer MCX, a semi-automatic weapon that can have assault-style variants.

“Finding a purpose and a reason for my daughter's death and all the other victim's deaths," Alvear said."Finding a way to do something for them.”

By Prakriti Neogi