Milwaukee vigil honors victims of gun violence and calls for gun reform

MILWAUKEE— Many within the Milwaukee space got here out to Walker’s Sq. Park to wish for victims of gun violence on Friday night time.

Each time a mass taking pictures like those in Uvalde and Buffalo grabs the headlines, it takes Pardeep Singh Kaleka again to when his father was killed in a mass taking pictures by a white supremacist on the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin 10 years in the past.

“With him, I miss his humorousness and simply his sensibility, his management. He was the temple president for 15 years and I feel now we now have a group that’s up into the 1,000s and that was at all times a dream of his,” mentioned Kaleka.

Kaleka mentioned it hurts him that gun violence continues to happen everywhere in the nation.  

“It impacts us personally. It impacts us as a small group nevertheless it additionally evokes us and it evokes with the urgency to do what we have to do to makes positive this doesn’t occur once more to anyone,” mentioned Kaleka.  

Darryl Morin is the president of Ahead Latino and a member of the 80% Coalition, the group spearheading the victims of gun violence vigil in Milwaukee. Kaleka will even be part of it.  

Morin mentioned the message of this vigil is easy: Pray and Act. Morin mentioned he believes the one solution to honor the recollections of these misplaced to gun violence is to enact “widespread sense gun legal guidelines.”  

“Over 80% of Republicans and Democrats alike, proper right here in our personal state of Wisconsin, agree on the necessity to shut the background examine loophole so violent felons can’t proceed to purchase firearms or that police or relations who know of people affected by psychological sickness so they’ll have a authorized technique by which to take away a firearm briefly,” mentioned Kaleka.

The identify, “80% Coalition,” was impressed by a Marquette College Regulation College ballot asking about gun legal guidelines.

Kaleka mentioned it’s been disappointing that these reforms haven’t already occurred.

“Buffalo was preventable; Texas was preventable; Oak Creek was preventable. Every one in all these shootings that occurs, prefer it or not, is preventable and all of us must take accountability on what we haven’t finished to make it possible for occurs,” mentioned Kaleka.  

Kaleka mentioned that’s why he’ll proceed to name for change.