Philadelphia City Council Press Conferences, 6 May 2017

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From YouTube: Council President Clarke Welcomes Anti-Gun Violence Cyclists from Newtown CT 5-6-2017

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Council President Darrell Clarke (5th District) joined Philadelphia anti-gun violence advocates to welcome Team 26, a group of cyclists who are riding from Newtown, Connecticut, to Washington, D.C., for the fifth consecutive year in honor of the 26 children and adults killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as all victims of gun violence.

Also in attendance:
Dr. Pat Griffin, Mothers in Charge Philly
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro
State Representative Brian Sims
Dave Scholnick, CeaseFirePA

Video: Carolyn Esposito/PHLCouncil Fellow

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We're never won't give up all right. Kendall Inari would never want to get up as whatever legislation you won. If our ability to save our people but we're still not going to give up, we are going to be fired up all right hear me, because, when I get a phone call from a friend that lifted Yorktown as I'm driving a broad street, they say I just heard I think I heard some gunshots and I turned around a quarter to 11, misdialed and I, see the school in the school.

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Children are locked down in the school right, because some knuckleheads out there with these illegal weapons shooting up the neighborhood, and you see little yellow tape down there with all the bullets are. We can't continue to do this people? When will the madness stop so we're going to pass?

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The word of the people we need to do is have a referendum and every municipality in the state of Pennsylvania and put it on the ballot and have the people speak and say we don't want this, this ridiculous legislation to pass and we're going to send a message to cease fire all the supporters out here, all the Africans we want to say we want to stand with you big time or win.

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Here, because of Congress and in action we're here, because the NRA strengthened their stronghold on that country after children were gunned down.

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I I was asked to talk about some of the legislation, that's going through through the house and I'm happy to do that, and I I find myself trembling, I'm so angry that we have to have a trying to have a high-minded conversation about individual pieces of legislation being forced through a house that wants nothing to do with them after children were shot and what we need to do is we need to do something about it, because thoughts and prayers are not enough.

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What I need you all in today, yeah, absolutely thoughts and prayers are for each of us in our homes. An action is for our is our job in the streets and that's what we're here for we're here for action. Please walk away from this, not just being sad, not just being angry, not just with rage, but with action. Call. Your senator tell them to oppose SB 303 tell them why they should oppose it. Tell them how wrong it is remind them about twenty six and seven-year-olds that were gunned down in their school we've.

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Got to do a better job and there's some specific things that we could do on the state level. That is where it's at the next two years I applaud my colleagues Pennsylvania it resisting the temptation to have guns in the classroom. That theta is crystal clear: if you own a gun, you're more likely to kill yourself or to kill your spouse or to have your challenging and rarely kill, you kill themselves.

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The data stood.

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Throughout the world we all have the same degree of psychological social issues, but our country has upwards of fifty to a hundred times. The number of contacts.

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We can make a difference, so those of you that have lost loved ones, I shed a tear for you to add to a sword. We.

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Can no longer accept a lack of funding and substandard schools where so many kids think they don't have an opportunity, and so they turn to violence instead of education as a key to their future.

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You can no longer think that if children see trauma in their communities that they will then turn to violence, we can no longer send kids to bed hungry in situations where they are unsafe and expect more from them. We need to accept the root causes of these challenges and address them. When we come together when we pedal when we call when we rally, we will together form a great amount of people change our policies, hold leaders accountable and make our community City. Let us focus on the root causes of this evil.

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Let us make sure we empower people with authority to make better decisions or accountable to people, and let us make sure we were claimed our communities here in Philadelphia across this great Commonwealth in Connecticut and across our amazing country. That task falls before us. Not one of us is going to complete it, but together I know we will make a difference. Thank you. God bless you and thank you for what you do.