Daily News | Philly-area faith leaders remember gun violence victims and rally for change
Speakers also urged the group to contact Pennsylvania lawmakers to enact a limit on gun purchases to one handgun per month, and fund more community programming and resources in“We need to take in fully the fact that just as all people are connected, gun violence is connected to so many other factors,” said Rabbi Linda Holtzman of POWER.
Cherie Ryans didn’t carry a T-shirt with the name of a victim as she quietly marched with the group. Instead, the Southwest Philadelphia mother held close a photograph of her son, Terence Ryans —“Today, I’m carrying my son,” Ryans said softly.Kenney says Philly is ‘doing everything it can’ as probe into South Street mass shooting continues
Thursday’s march was one of many Ryans has attended in the decades since Terence’s death. She said she has rallied in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Washington, D.C., “pleading with [lawmakers] to do something about these crazy guns and these gun laws.” “I’m not asking to give up their firstborn,” Ryans said. “I’m asking them to pay attention to the needs, the wants, the desires of the people, the mothers who have lost their children.”
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