{"id":113764,"date":"2022-09-20T22:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T02:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113764"},"modified":"2022-09-20T22:45:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T02:45:02","slug":"plbc-meets-with-naaga-and-second-amendment-caucus-on-gun-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113764","title":{"rendered":"PLBC meets with NAAGA and Second Amendment Caucus on gun issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Image Provided by the House Democratic Communications Office<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>HARRISBURG, Sept. 20<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Members of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus met with the National African American Gun Association and the House Second Amendment Caucus to discuss gun issues in the commonwealth, according to PLBC Chair Donna Bullock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to get something done on gun crime and violence, we need to talk to every stakeholder,\u201d said Bullock, D-Phila. \u201cThough we may disagree on some policy issues, it doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t talk about the gun violence that is plaguing the commonwealth and where we can find common ground to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack gun owners are uniquely positioned to discuss public safety and gun violence prevention while protecting the rights of legal, responsible gun owners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0National African American Gun Association was founded \u201cto expose, educate, and motivate as many African American men and women to go out and purchase a firearm for self-defense and to take training on proper gun use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s launch date was Feb. 28, 2015, in honor of Black History Month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nJean Allegrini<br \/>\nHouse Democratic Communications Office<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Provided by the House Democratic Communications Office HARRISBURG, Sept. 20\u00a0\u2013 Members of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus met with the National African American Gun Association and the House Second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113764\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PLBC meets with NAAGA and Second Amendment Caucus on gun issues<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/National-African-American-Gun-Association.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}