We need to make sure our lawmakers #DontLookAway from our gun violence crisis.
Text BOLD to 64433 to call your U.S. senators and demand action on gun safety now.
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Inaction on our nation’s gun violence crisis is unacceptable. We won’t back down on that.
Call your senators so they #DontLookAway from the over 110 people killed by guns and the 200 more wounded each day—text BOLD to 644-33.
@arneduncan No easy way to stop political rhetoric -the arc of the moral universe bends toward Justice but we have to give up individual rights for the common good
Just reread the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (https://t.co/DxzymyDj7S) and cannot find where Wayne LaPierre's assertion is mentioned. (And we should probably start on the first 30 Articles listed in 1948)
Definition of investigate: carry out a systematic or formal inquiry to discover and examine the facts of (an incident, allegation, etc.) so as to establish the truth. Lucky that investigating does not include any additional action. Is knowing why enough any more?
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said “This only happens in this country,” Murphy said. “And nowhere else, nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day…And it is a choice. It is our choice to let it continue.” We are better than this!
I am from Buffalo. Instead of a moment of silence or prayers, say their names. Remember them and not the shooter: Roberta Drury, Margus Morrison, Andre Mackneil, Aaron Salter, Geraldine Talley, Celestine Chaney, Heyward Patterson, Katherine Massey, Pearl Young & Ruth Whitfield
Action-oriented data-driven collaborations of organizations like READI, CP4P and CRED can keep Chicago safe as we move into the summer months. Participants in violence prevention programs shared their stories yesterday at a Violence Prevention Community Meeting.
Violence prevention community including CRED, CP4P, READI & UCAN came together today to offer data-based action in Chicago. Overheard quote "I remain hopeful because together we ARE stronger." @ChicagoCred
@arneduncan Statistics don’t change minds, social and news media has a bad news bias is and politicians feed fear~ so how do we move more people to do what is needed? More mental health support as a 1st step