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'Bucks Against Gun Violence' Rallies at Noon Saturday

On Saturday at noon hundreds who favor new gun control law are expected to rally at the Bucks County Courthouse.

Since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, guns and gun control has been on the nation’s consciousness.

While some groups, such as the Concerned Gun Owners of Bucks County, gather behind fewer controls, others, such as Bucks Against Gun Violence, rally to support new gun control laws.

This issue is what happens when these two opposing forces meet? The thing about rallies is that they attract people from both sides.

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Bucks Against Gun Violence will rally at the Bucks County Courthouse at noon Saturday.

Some members are gun owners, according to a Phillyburbs.com blog. Bucks Against Gun Violence respects the country’s time-honored hunting tradition, they just want universal background checks and a ban military-style automatic weapons.

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The rally Saturday is to also focus a letter-writing campaign to Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick.

Speakers will include Doylestown Mayor Libby White; Shira Goodman, executive director of CeaseFire PA; The Rev. Robert Moore, Coalition for Peace Action; Mary Avino of Bucks County Against Gun Violence, some of whom are gun owners.


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