Entries by Alicia Horton

From California to Maine, and Texas to Minnesota, members of the Million Mom March and other gun control activists across the country have joined together in a nationwide memorial event to remember victims of gun violence and sound the alarm that enough is enough! and that gun violence in our communities must end!

Click here to learn more and to plan a bell ringing event in your neighborhood.

At a set time bells of all sorts tolled 82 times in towns, cities, schools, churches, neighborhoods and homes across the nation to commemorate the number of people killed everyday in this country by gun violence. This event is a powerful statement that rings through communities everywhere tolling the work still needed to end sensless gun violence.

Who should participate? Religious organizations, victims’ groups, and civil and human rights activists, service organizations, childrens advocacy groups; anyone who wants to help and may be interested in protecting the rights of victims of gun violence of all ages. These groups may also have access to or be aware of bells that can be rung, at churches, schools, in memorial gardens, at municipal offices, at the district offices of members of Congress, etc.