The City of Greensboro is hosting its second annual “Violence Awareness Day” on Friday, June 7. The event is being held in conjunction with National Gun Violence Awareness Day. On that day, cities and towns across the country will host similar events.
Nationally, the event falls on the first Friday of June every year.
It’s followed by Wear Orange Weekend – a weekend when people are asked to wear orange to show their support for reducing gun violence across the country.
The day originally began on June 2, 2015, which would have been the 18th birthday of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old shot and killed in 2013 while on a playground in Chicago. One week before being shot, she had performed at President Barack Obama’s second presidential inauguration.
In Greensboro this year, the free event runs from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Barber Park Amphitheater at 1500 Barber Road.
According to event organizers, the afternoon is designed to highlight work being done through the City of Greensboro’s Office of Community Safety’s “GSO Peace on Purpose Violence Prevention Initiative.”
The Peace on Purpose program partners with other groups in the area that are intent on pursuing a common goal – “remaining ‘on purpose’ in pursuit of reducing violence in Greensboro.”
Greensboro and Guilford County have had a truly disturbing number of shootings in recent years.
On Violence Awareness Day in Greensboro, organizations will be onsite to provide information regarding their services, and local leaders will speak on the prevention of violence.
The day won’t all be somber, however; it will include food, games, music, entertainment, community art projects and more.
The City’s Office of Community Safety is sponsoring the event along with the Greensboro Police Department, the Parks and Recreation Department and Creative Greensboro.
Violence is perpetrated by human beings, not inanimate objects, and some humans are more violent than others.
If city council would eliminate the silly and wasteful personal member pet projects they support, you would have money to hire the needed police officers without screwing the taxpayers. Sadly, the left does not see it that way.
You know with reports when Danny Rogers vehicle stolen he reported no guns in the vehicle but reports have surfaced that there were guns and some may have never been recovered. I pray no one dies from one of Danny Rogers guns because the lawsuit on Guilford County alone will bankrupt the county.
Violence of all types would go down most easily by keeping the offenders off the
streets and behind bars. Simple plan……….rarely used these days.
Here’s a thought . . . .guns are not the problem. . . .people who use them to kill other people or rob people ARE the problem. If we outlawed guns, only criminals would still have them.
It may make some people “feel good” by marching for gun violence, or having seminars on ways to stop gun violence, but that approach misses the point. . . .when criminals use guns to commit a crime, they need to be punished by spending a few years in prison. And criminals laugh at gun restrictions since they have multiple ways of getting guns without having to buy them.
Bottom line? Make the possession of a gun used in a crime punishable by a minimum of 10 years in prison, no parole. Also, double the salaries of police and corrections officers so we can have more of them rooting out the evils of society.
Joe I agree with you. I appreciate the idea of folks meeting, discussing gun violence and trying to come up with ways to at least slow it down. However, it’s not going to be stopped. What is needed is strong legislative action and strong court action to put offenders away for a long time. 10 years minimum without parole sounds like a good start. Keeping offenders locked up for an extended time might at least slow gun violence down a bit.
The Democrat Playbook sez “gun violence”. Nothing about “knife violence”. It is people who are violent.
i am hosting bug awareness day & demand compensation from taxpayers for my ‘expertise’.