Rally in Kansas City, Missouri, calls for reform on National Gun Violence Awareness Day

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Grandparents For Gun Security, and Mothers Demand Motion, gathered Friday night at Mill Creek Park on Nationwide Gun Violence Consciousness Day to deal with pressing want for gun reform.

Collectively, the members have seen a long time of how gun violence can shatter a group.

“However the public I believe has lastly mentioned, ‘That is sufficient,’” Judy Sherry, founder and president of Grandparents for Gun Security, mentioned. “We can’t hold killing kids and enduring the ramifications from these shootings, their households won’t ever be the identical.”

Carly Mitchell felt that loss when her buddy Mona Lisa Bruce, was murdered final summer time within the Citadel neighborhood.

“It’s very arduous to course of, very arduous to maneuver on,” Mitchell, who can be an advocate with the Advert Hoc Group In opposition to Crime, mentioned. “Particularly due to the rationale it was, it may have been prevented.”

It is one of many causes she introduced her 7-year-old daughter to Mill Creek Park on the day to recollect the victims and survivors of gun violence.

“I really like how individuals rally collectively that have not even been impacted by it in any respect, that’s extra significant to me,” Mitchell mentioned. “Like, that is actually significant.”

Grandparents for Gun Security was created after the Sandy Hook bloodbath that killed 20 kids.

“10 years later, we’re in the identical boat,” Sherry mentioned. “And so I am right here to say, I could not stay lengthy sufficient to see one thing occur. However it is going to occur.”

Many who attended the rally have reached out to legislators asking for more durable gun legal guidelines. Ken O’Renick has referred to as Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt’s workplace.

“And now he is retiring, he has nothing to lose, he must get a spine and begin voting, the ethical the reality about what this entire violence situation is in weapons,” O’Renick mentioned.

As Congress struggles to go gun reform laws, native lawmakers face related challenges every time they’ve tried to do the identical.

Missouri Rep. Emily Weber has proposed a regulation that might require gun proprietor to report any stolen or lacking firearms inside 72 hours.

“We’ve got to proceed going ahead and shifting ahead, as a result of we will not anticipate the following bloodbath that is going to occur,” Weber mentioned.

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