Gainesville events raise awareness about gun violence
Press release from the City of Gainesville
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville will join communities across the nation to raise awareness about gun violence, amplify the voices of survivors, and build community as part of Gun Violence Awareness Month in June. The events are free and open to the public.
Survivors of Gun Violence Memorial
When: 9-11 a.m., Sat., May 31
Where: Squirrel Ridge Park, 1603 SW Williston Road
In partnership with Alachua County Community Support Services, the Alachua County Crisis Center, the Community Gun Violence Prevention Alliance, and fellow community partners, the memorial event will offer opportunities for reflection, remembrance, and healing.
Gun Violence Awareness Day Proclamation
When: 5:30 p.m., Thurs., June 5
Where: City Hall Auditorium, 200 E. University Ave.
At the beginning of the evening session of the June 5 city commission meeting, Mayor Ward and the Gainesville City Commission will designate Friday, June 6, as Gun Violence Awareness Day in Gainesville to honor the lives of gun violence victims and survivors.
Wear Orange at Midnight Basketball
When: 8 p.m., Fri., June 6
Where: Martin Luther King, Jr. Multipurpose Center, 1028 N.E. 14th St.
Neighbors are invited to wear orange clothing to this event, scheduled before the start of Midnight Basketball. National Gun Violence Awareness Day is annually scheduled the first Friday in June, and #WearOrange is the official hashtag of the Wear Orange national movement to stop gun violence.
When: 4-7 p.m., Wed., June 11
Where: 401 NW 6th St.
Come visit the new offices of IMPACT GNV and enjoy Gainesville Fire Rescue’s Healthy Afternoons from 4-5 p.m. with music, food, and health and safety resources.
I think most of us can agree as to being ‘aware’ of gun violence.
Unfortunately many are either ashamed, afraid or just don’t want to rat out their family and friends by identifying those who may commit such acts.
Then there are those who don’t really care. Really unfortunate that those and those who’ve committed numerous violent acts against others are still alive to conduct even more.
What about machete/knife violence? And running people over with a vehicle? Violence is in the mind of a person not what someone uses to commit the violence.
Because communist aren’t worried about knives and cars, they know when it comes, they aren’t going to be lined up against a wall an Toyota’d:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZQoColry58
99% of Americans that own guns are law abiding and are not violent. It is too bad that the violent ones get their hands on a gun, a knife, a rope, a car or whatever else they use. Their are people out there that want to disarm law abiding citizens while the criminals will ignore those laws.
So they’re gonna just keep blaming an inanimate object while ignoring the truth.
As Vladimir Lenin said: ‘A lie told often enough becomes the truth.’
Unfortunately that isn’t going to work in 2025 Florida. This is not Bolshevik Soviet Union. We will not be propagandized by political agents. Mount up!
“So they’re gonna just keep blaming an inanimate object while ignoring the truth.”
Yep!
Lately, it seems like a conflict resolution problem among younger hot heads who can’t solve things civilly
Do they prefer knives, like they use in other countries?
We need a Stop Stealing Awareness month, instead.
We need an FBI crime statistics awareness month.
It is sad that the liberals who run Alachua County and especially the incompetents running GNV never blame the violent criminals. and always seek to blame an inanimate object. And then, they refuse to properly punish those criminals to at least deter future school to jail pipeline graduates.
This is another bogus attempt to virtue signal their way out of the problem they helped happen. Adding more so called ‘affordable housing’ with two motels being converted to homeless shelters in addition to Grace (drug marketplace). If you ‘build’ it they will come. Well….you built it and they’re coming….to add to the violent guns you are so scared of.
Did they ever arrest the gun shooter at the park??? Most of the folks there know who he is