Miami-Dade County Commissioner Barbara J. Jordan along with a number of her colleagues are celebrating National Gun Violence Awareness Day one day after joining a legal challenge against the state’s ban on local gun control laws.
On May 31, Miami-Dade County joined a lawsuit filed by Broward County challenging a state law prohibiting local governments from implementing their own laws regulating firearms and ammunition. The action came after the County Commission’s approval on May 1 of a resolution authorizing the County to join Broward’s legal challenge. The resolution was co-prime sponsored by Commissioners Barbara J. Jordan, Daniella Levine Cava and Jean Monestime, and Vice Chairwoman Audrey M. Edmonson, and co-sponsored by Commissioners Sally A. Heyman and Dennis C. Moss.
June 1 is National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
“I can think of no better way to commemorate National Gun Violence Awareness Day and honor the victims of gun violence than by taking on the state’s unjust preemption of our ability as local governments to enact common-sense gun regulations,” said Commissioner Jordan, a consistent gun control advocate who has annually sponsored resolutions urging Congress and the state to ban assault weapons or allow local governments to do so.
“Today, on National Gun Violence Awareness Day, I stand with the victims and families that have lost a loved one due to gun violence,” Commissioner Levine Cava said. “The pain and heartbreak that our community has suffered goes beyond politics, and I’m committed to working towards a day where senseless violence is a thing of the past.”
