Jasmin pauses braiding the hair of her friend, Sam, to help Za’Ryah with her math homework at her home in Rochester, N.Y., on Nov. 21, 2022. “You can take someone's clothes, you can take their sneakers, you can take their hair and cut it off,” says Jasmin. “But you can't take their education, you cannot take someone's education. That's something that you can never take from someone. Never…If you have the proper education and the proper mindset, you’ll stay away from those guns.”