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Black clergy have launched a new coalition to fight gun violence, saying they are undeterred by the recent failure of legislation on Capitol Hill and all too aware of the problem of gun violence.\u00a0<\/span>At meetings held Tuesday (April 23) in Washington and Los Angeles, supporters of the African-American Church Gun Control Coalition called gun violence \u201cboth a sin and a public health crisis\u201d and committed to a three-year action plan of advocacy, education and legislative responses.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cAs people of God and as faithful members we have the obligation to stir the world\u2019s conscience and to call on our nation\u2019s decision makers to do what is just and right,\u201d said the Rev. Carroll Baltimore, president of the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Progressive National Baptist Convention<\/a>, which convened the coalition.<\/span><\/span>

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\u201cAfrican-American clergy leaders hear daily the cries of the parents, family and friends of those whose precious lives have been snuffed out by guns and other types of violence.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Denominational leaders have joined in recentmultifaith calls to address gun violence<\/a>, especially after December\u2019s deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. But the\u00a0Rev. Stephen Thurston<\/a>, president of the National Baptist Convention of America, said black pastors have dealt with such violence long before attention was drawn to gun violence in predominantly white communities.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cThis is what happens every day and every week in America in some urban city,\u201d he said before the coalition meeting. \u201cWithin the black community, it has been happening for so long.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Gun violence is the leading cause of death of black males ages 15-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u00a0The Children\u2019s Defense Fund<\/a>\u00a0reported that in 2009 black male teens were eight times more likely to die from gun violence than white teenage males.<\/span><\/div>\n
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