Video: Ridgewood Citizens Demand Tougher Gun Control Laws at Protest
Coalition of protesters held a vigil for Sandy Hook victims in Ridgewood on Sunday. The group also demanded legislators enact "sensible" reforms to prevent shooting deaths in the U.S.
Still reeling from the violent shootings in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14, more than 50 village citizens took to the streets to let their voices be heard on gun control reform. Organized by three village residents, the peaceful protest met for a vigil on the one-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre at Ridgewood's Van Neste Square on Sunday. Approximately 70 people joined the vigil to hear speakers, including Ridgewood's Mayor Paul Aronsohn. Following the speeches and a march around Memorial Park at Van Neste Square, the participants were led by Bill Scher in a rousing rendition of "America the Beautiful". The vigil organizers reacted to the NRA suggestions that reforms would infringe on the Second Amendment and that teachers should be …
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James Bombace
4:24 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
Pass all the gun laws you want, it still does not address the issue and problem of an individual who is determined to kill others in large numbers. Until we all, as a country, are wiling to admit that guns don't kill people unless they are used by evil or mentally deranged people, the killings will continue. Once this country realizes its not the gun or bomb, as Tim McVeigh used, but the person … more ›