
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, In commemoration of National Gun Violence Awareness Day, Ridgewood Mayor Ramon Hache, Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter, Ridgewood JOLT, Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action, and members of Sandy Hook Promise invite residents to join a rally at Van Neste Square in Ridgewood, on Saturday, June 8 at 10 am. Participants are encouraged to wear orange, the favorite color of Hadiya Pendleton, a Chicago girl who was shot at age 15. Today orange signifies the fight for a future free from gun violence.
The statistics are harrowing. Gun deaths claim the lives of an average of 96 people, including seven children, each day in the United States.
“It’s infuriating to think about the Parkland shooting and how hard those students fought and how little progress has been made,” says Catherine Brienza, founder and president of JOLT USA, an organization dedicated to educating and empowering others to make a positive difference in the world. “The House passed a background check bill, but the Senate has done nothing. We may be getting desensitized. That is my fear. We want everyone to show up at this rally and show this is an issue that must be front and center of our consciousness.”
The mission of the rally is to come together to show that we are united in the goal of ending gun violence.
Had to pick a color that’s not on the rainbow flag. (Society-bashing progressives know how to avoid stepping on one another’s toes.)
50% off Gun Range tickets will be available.
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Be ready to combat gun violence
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Q: Why isn’t there more media coverage of the Virginia Beach shooting?
A: In the case of Virginia Beach, a black man (i.e., not a white man) shot up a workplace with handguns (i.e., not a scary looking AR-15 style rifle)
If a shooting event doesn’t fit the preferred narrative that society-bashing progressives are trying to advance, the victims are ignored, no matter how numerous they are.
The shooter in Virginia Beach killed, what, eleven or twelve people? Yet we hear nothing about them. Including nothing about the African-American hero who selflessly went directly into harms way to try to protect his Public Works co-workers and was killed in the process.
This is how you know the main aim of gun control advocates is purely political.
Almost no news outlets mention that only HAND GUNS were used to kill the Public Works employees in Virginia Beach.
Gun control advocates are currently agitating in favor of banning private sector civilians from owning any type of AR-15 style rifle, including the less-dangerous semi-automatic variety. They want to be seen as being moderate in their demands, and not being in favor of repealing the Second Amendment.
But how are we to be protected against workplace shootings carried out with handguns/pistols? This is the gaping hole in the gun control advocates’ logic. Accordingly, they do not wish to speak with too much specificity about the recent Virginia Beach workplace massacre.
This is why smart people know that banning semiautomatic AR-15 rifles is merely the cause dujour. The real goal is banning all guns in private hands.
Gun control advocates do not have any way to protect cowering, shelter-in-place civilians against the specific kind of “gun violence” that occurred in Virginia Beach unless they decide to go the Full Monte and begin agitating in favor of repealing the Second Amendment in its entirety, and following up by putting draconian enforcement provisions in place to ensure our country is quickly purged of all handguns.
Maybe this group has a flag they what raised at the NEW community flag poll .
Haven’t the libs ruined enough already? Their angst knows no limits.
“If a shooting event doesn’t fit the preferred narrative that society-bashing progressives are trying to advance, the victims are ignored, no matter how numerous they are.”
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yes.
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How about the other recent school shooting where the “assistant” shooter was transgender.
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Another dead story… no political leverage here.
move on…
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New Mayor and council also sold out and started following aronshon path. Political ambitions change humans.
more BULLSHIT
they would flog a dead dog if it expressed a will to do anything at all
pave the roads..chip a street…village is full of litter..grab a broom VC
ps
A Town Garage site is a slum volcano..fire hazard as well .knock it down..Bill the speculator owner
The orange ribbons were illegally tied around the light posts and should be removed as quick as Trump campaign signs got stolen off private lawns in 2016 (i.e., nearly instantaneously).