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The following is a joint statement that has been shared with the Courier Journal, Business First, and other media outlets. We are continuing to gather signatures, so please let us know if you are willing to have your name listed as a supportive signee. If you would like to sign or know of anyone else that would, please email us at [email protected]
In Louisville, we are completely heartbroken and fed up with the senseless gun violence which we continue to see almost daily in our city. It is essential that we each stand up, be counted, and together create a chorus of voices calling for getting assault weapons and guns off the streets. Together we can find the path forward to prevent all forms of shootings, including mass shootings. Each of our daily actions must constantly value and care for all of life, human and natural! It is our moral responsibility to insist daily that we immediately stop all cruel, senseless and inhumane violence and cruelties. We must reflect the best spirit of our beloved city and State calling for major action to create a safer and healthier Louisville and Kentucky.
This week, we have lost more Louisvillians who should not be dead. We’ve lost more fathers, more mothers, more friends, more family members, more leaders in our community. We must act immediately and stop the cruel and senseless violence.
With Love for Our City and All Those We Have Lost,
Greg Abernathy, Mikus Abolins-Abols and Natalie Christian, Anne Arensberg,
Sen. Cassie Chambers Armstrong, Mary Berry, Wendell and Tanya Berry,
Turney Berry, Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar, Regina Blake, Representative Tina Bojanowski, Nina Bonnie,
Christina Lee Brown, Garvin Brown, Owsley Brown III and Victoire Brown,
Representative Beverly Chester Burton, David Y. Chack, Alfonso "Al" Cornish and Yvonne Austin-Cornish,
Reverend Kevin Cosby, oSha Cowley-Shireman, Sarah Lynn Cunningham,
Archbishop Shelton Fabre, Robert Barry Fleming, Sandra Frazier, Jamie and Sydney Goldsmith,
John and Mary Moss Greenebaum, Representative Daniel Grossberg, Ali Haider, Tracy Jo Ingram,
Ed and Bernadette S. Hamilton, Audwin and Rae Helton, Representative Keturah Herron,
Alice and Wade Houston, Barbara Lynne Jamison, Former Minority Leader Joni Jenkins,
Ricky Jones, Anne Clay Kenan, Heather Kleisner, Representative Nima Kulkarni,
Nana Lampton, Annie Langan, Clest and Chuck Lanier,
Deborah and Paul LaPorte, Keith Logan, Todd Lowe, Lois Mateus,
Tori Murden McClure, Congressman Morgan McGarvey, Sister Claire McGowan,
William "Beaver" McMahan, Senate Minority Leader Gerald Neal, Mary Nixon, Will Oldham,
Timothy D. Peters and Susan Taylor Peters, Lyndon Pryor, Rick and Von Purdy,
Sadiqa Reynolds, Ambassador Theodore Sedgwick, Kevin and Ivvy Shurn,
Anthony Smith, Ted and Jane Smith, Rebecca T Smith and Ali Ahmad-Hukle,
Ted Steinbock and Sarah Martin, Bishop John Stowe, Julia Taylor,
Gordon Tobin and Elisabeth Tobin, Matt Wallace, Megan Webb,
Representative Lisa Willner, Dawn Wilson, Aaron and Sarah Yarmuth,
and Congressman John and Cathy Yarmuth.
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