Anti-Gun Violence Committee to Bring 'Newtown to Morristown'

Following the success of their anti-gun violence rally on Valentine's Day, the Morris Area Committee to Reduce Gun Violence hosts a new event, Morris County Makes the Sandy Hook Promise, at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

The event will include keynote speaker Rob Cox, a Newtown, Conn. native and co-founder of Sandy Hook Promise. He wrote an editorial for USA Today about the new organization saying:

“In launching Sandy Hook Promise, we began a journey to find answers as a community. And we invite people in every community to join us by making the Sandy Hook Promise. Love and compassion must direct our intentions. We must be open to all possibilities.  If we all really listen to each other, we may find we have more areas of common ground than we thought. And if we search for new strategies, we may find solutions that we couldn't have dreamed of.”

Sandy Hook Promise (SHP) is a non-profit created by members of the community of Newtown after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December. According to a press statement from the Morris Area Committee to Reduce Gun Violence, SHP's mission is "to identify and implement holistic, common sense solutions that will make our community and our country safer from similar acts of violence through education, outreach and grass-roots discussion."

A light breakfast and live music are included in this free event at the Parish House of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown. The event is timed—and located—perfectly for families heading to the St. Patrick's Day Parade.

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The Morris Area Committee to Reduce Gun Violence was founded in January as a non-partisan, grassroots group whose aim is to reduce the high rate of gun violence in America.