Today, as we reflect on his sacrifice and the anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. Association, we must do more than remember—we must respond.
Across our country—from neighborhoods to nations—gun violence has become both a public safety and public health crisis. In the spirit of Dr. King, we call on municipalities, counties, states, and the federal government to:
Declare a public emergency on gun violence.
Enact comprehensive reforms that protect lives, heal communities, and transform policy into peace.
Invest in people, not prisons. Prevention, not punishment. Healing, not harm.
Let us follow examples like Albuquerque’s Summer of Nonviolence, rooted in the King Center’s Nonviolence365 philosophy—a community-led commitment to Dr. King’s six principles of nonviolence and six steps of social change.
Now is not the time to look away.
It is time to march, to legislate, to heal, to build.
Let this be our generation’s greatest struggle—and our finest legacy.
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Devont'e Kurt Watson 