The park where Saturday’s “Wear Orange” event was held was created as a safe place to help deter violence. Inside the park, people used chalk to write the names of gun violence victims on the sidewalk.
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“I hope that our elected officials will take notice to the people that are here today and hear their voices to at least move forward on some sensible gun measurements,” said Irvin Cohen, executive director of LISC Jacksonville The park where Saturday’s “Wear Orange” event was held was created as a safe place to help deter violence.
The park where Saturday’s “Wear Orange” event was held was created as a safe place to help deter violence.One of the names was Rhonda Phillips’ son, Leon Bennett, who died in a shooting in Jacksonville Beach in 2018.Following recent mass shootings at a supermarket in Buffalo and an elementary school in Texas and an attack at a Tulsa Hospital, President Joe Biden is calling for Congress to pass more gun laws.He also wants to issue a federal red-flag law.
“The right to own, process and carry a firearm is a civil right. It’s such an important right, it’s the second right in the Bill of Rights,” Friday said. “The idea that we are going to prevent crime, prevent mass killings by restricting the type of firearm available to law abiding citizens or by limiting the places where law abiding citizens are allowed to carry a firearm is a fallacy and fiction and demonstrates a lack of logic or real thought.
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