BBC's Gun Violence Prevention Summit
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Building Better Communities is a 501c3 Nonprofit that fights Gun Violence in our community. This year has seen an increase in Gun Violence that has left several 15 year olds, 17 and 19 year olds dead. A elderly father was killed in his sleep from a drive by shooting. There is a video circulating where a man was shot and killed in the neighborhood and his body was in the play area with children present. It has to stop. We are hosting a summit that will be a game changer in our worst hit communities. We are looking to provide food, handheld tablets, counseling, printed materials and more at the Gun Violence Prevention Summit. BBC needs your help to save our communities.
Fatal shootings are becoming more common in the Columbia and Richland County area, a community leader is looking to raise money to combat it. On Saturday, May 15, CPD responded to another fatal shooting at the Colony Apartments.
The community is right next to the BBC headquarters, and Executive Director Perry Bradley said neighbors are looking for something to be done.
“We have to have resources for people in the community, tangible resources that they can see, they can feel. Money talks. Everything else is just talking. Everybody comes in, especially around election time, and talk talk talk talk. [The community is] ready to see something. They’re ready for action. You heard some of that today. They’re ready for action,” he said.
Bradley stressed children know what they see. He said too often children are seeing a lack of resources and investment in their communities.
He argued that if they’re given the tools to succeed, they’ll be less likely to be in situations where they may need a gun.
“How do you take the selling of drugs out of the equation that doesn’t have anything. Well, if I can sell this to get my lights turned on, I can sell this to get some food to put in my stomach. If we provide all these things for them, if we provide the resources and education to help them to move forward, you eliminate that. If you eliminate the reason for the gun, you eliminate gun violence,” he said.
Bradley said he is now in the process of fundraising $100,000 to $150,000 for the sake of putting on a convention in July to make more resources available.
We need you!
Fatal shootings are becoming more common in the Columbia and Richland County area, a community leader is looking to raise money to combat it. On Saturday, May 15, CPD responded to another fatal shooting at the Colony Apartments.
The community is right next to the BBC headquarters, and Executive Director Perry Bradley said neighbors are looking for something to be done.
“We have to have resources for people in the community, tangible resources that they can see, they can feel. Money talks. Everything else is just talking. Everybody comes in, especially around election time, and talk talk talk talk. [The community is] ready to see something. They’re ready for action. You heard some of that today. They’re ready for action,” he said.
Bradley stressed children know what they see. He said too often children are seeing a lack of resources and investment in their communities.
He argued that if they’re given the tools to succeed, they’ll be less likely to be in situations where they may need a gun.
“How do you take the selling of drugs out of the equation that doesn’t have anything. Well, if I can sell this to get my lights turned on, I can sell this to get some food to put in my stomach. If we provide all these things for them, if we provide the resources and education to help them to move forward, you eliminate that. If you eliminate the reason for the gun, you eliminate gun violence,” he said.
Bradley said he is now in the process of fundraising $100,000 to $150,000 for the sake of putting on a convention in July to make more resources available.
We need you!
Fundraising team (2)
Perry Bradley
Organizer
Columbia, SC
Pamela Dinkins
Team member
