Cathy Hobart, center, reads her comments to those in attendance at Tuesday's gun violence awareness day proclamation signing at City Hall Tuesday. At left is Judge-Executive Huston Wells and at right is Mayor Layne Wilkerson. (Photo submitted)
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in America and one local organization is determined to erase that statistic.
On Tuesday, the Frankfort Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense group were on hand for a joint signing of a proclamation naming Friday as National Gun Violence Awareness Day by Judge-Executive Huston Wells and Mayor Layne Wilkerson.
Cathy Hobart, center, reads her comments to those in attendance at Tuesday's gun violence awareness day proclamation signing at City Hall Tuesday. At left is Judge-Executive Huston Wells and at right is Mayor Layne Wilkerson. (Photo submitted)
According to the proclamation, Americans are 25 more times likely to die by gun homicide than people in other high-income countries. In fact, more than 230 U.S. residents are shot and wounded each day and more than 13,000 gun homicides and 23,000 gun suicides are recorded each year.
“While mass shootings — like the ones at the grocery store in Buffalo and the school shooting in Uvalde — receive the most media attention, we know that every day 110 people in America die because they have been shot,” Cathy Hobart, group leader, explained, adding that two-thirds are suicides and most of the rest are homicides.
“Many more are shot and injured. Intimate partner violence, road rage, bar fights, gang fights, white supremacist ideology, people driven to acts of desperation all too often result in death and injury because of easy access to guns. No other peer nation puts up with this. Only in America,” she said.
Statistics show that Kentucky has 728 gun-related deaths per year with a rate of 16.1 deaths per 100,000 people — making it the 15th highest of the 50 states.
“Together, we’ll work to make this country safe for everyone,” Hobart told those in attendance. “From intimate partner violence to police violence, gun suicides, gun homicides and unintentional shootings, we demand a bold plan that must address it all.”
The proclamation says that protecting public safety is elected leaders' highest responsibility and “support for the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens goes hand-in-hand with keeping guns away from people with dangerous histories.”
In conjunction with others across the country, Moms Demand Action encourages local residents to wear orange this weekend in honor of the victims and survivors of gun violence.
“Orange symbolizes the value of each person’s life. We wear it as we demand a future free of gun violence,” Hobart stated.
Gayle, all manufacturing of assault rifles and handguns should cease in America, along with a ban on them . They should be gathered by police officers or turned in at check points the be destroyed. The police should and gladly will hunt down those that don’t comply, to be imprisoned and their guns taken. How’s that proposal?
I agree Gayle, alot of words but no actions because they don't have the knowledge or the courage or the political will to know what to do. This past Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, 50 people were shot, 10 fatally. All the people shot and no doubt all the shooters were black. Expand that nationwide and you have the carnage in Democrat led inner cities of black on black crime. When are these liberal groups going to address this? When will this be the lead on the evening news? I would like to hear one of these (and I do believe they are well meaning) folks describe what firearms must be wrested from their owners - assault weapons they would say (the general consensus being AR rifles, which account for less than 1% of weapons used in murder) and then describe what an assault rifle is. I'll guarantee you they couldn't do it. What happened in Texas was a horrible tragedy, exacerbated by failures of the school system and those charged with the protection of society.
None of the proposals I've read in aftermath would have stopped it from occurring, just the same old leftist laundry list of anti -second amendment laws they wait to roll out every time something horrible occurs that wouldn't begin to affecct that situation. That mentally ill guy legally acquired that firearm which puts the ball in the court of those hired to stop him......and they didn't.
Donald , you’ve spoken like a true Republican! They promote assault rifles with their NRA “ hush “ $ that keeps the gun manufacturers happy! Even if it’s killing innocent children . Your a proud American!?
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Just more "word salad" but no real proposals.
Gayle, all manufacturing of assault rifles and handguns should cease in America, along with a ban on them . They should be gathered by police officers or turned in at check points the be destroyed. The police should and gladly will hunt down those that don’t comply, to be imprisoned and their guns taken. How’s that proposal?
I agree Gayle, alot of words but no actions because they don't have the knowledge or the courage or the political will to know what to do. This past Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, 50 people were shot, 10 fatally. All the people shot and no doubt all the shooters were black. Expand that nationwide and you have the carnage in Democrat led inner cities of black on black crime. When are these liberal groups going to address this? When will this be the lead on the evening news? I would like to hear one of these (and I do believe they are well meaning) folks describe what firearms must be wrested from their owners - assault weapons they would say (the general consensus being AR rifles, which account for less than 1% of weapons used in murder) and then describe what an assault rifle is. I'll guarantee you they couldn't do it. What happened in Texas was a horrible tragedy, exacerbated by failures of the school system and those charged with the protection of society.
None of the proposals I've read in aftermath would have stopped it from occurring, just the same old leftist laundry list of anti -second amendment laws they wait to roll out every time something horrible occurs that wouldn't begin to affecct that situation. That mentally ill guy legally acquired that firearm which puts the ball in the court of those hired to stop him......and they didn't.
Donald , you’ve spoken like a true Republican! They promote assault rifles with their NRA “ hush “ $ that keeps the gun manufacturers happy! Even if it’s killing innocent children . Your a proud American!?
That on track in the right direction.
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