VIDAS ROBADAS, STOLEN LIVES, an installation that honors local victims of gun violence and connects with the community's lived experience

Continue doing hours of service to help your community

1. by learning from the links below and helping to educate people on gun violence.

2. read about the San Antonio "guns for groceries," that is the weapons exchange that happened on Nov. 19.  933 guns were exchanged for gift cards.  933 fewer chances of a child picking up a gun as a toy, of a depressed person grabbing a gun. 

3. Out of the 50 states, Texas ranks 31 in sensible gun laws and polities.  What can we do? 

More than 2,700 Bexar County Residents have died from gun violence in the past five years. Roughly half of the 2700 were homicide victims and the other half suicide victims. Today, gun violence is the LEADING cause of death for kids and teens. The loss of so many lives is why we need to increase public awareness of and commitment to gun safety.   VIDAS ROBADAS, STOLEN LIVES, is an installation that honors local victims of gun violence and connects the reality of gun violence to our community’s lived experience. 

We hope to take the exhibit to the lawn of the capitol---with all cities participating.  Keep educating people.  

 Learn from and work with Home | Students Demand Action. 

https://www.everytown.org/

https://besmartforkids.org/

Texas Impact https://texasimpact.org/  and COPS/Metro Alliance https://www.copsmetro.com/  are partnering with other local organizations

Help us publicize, this memorial with names of victims of homicides and white shirts with the suicide hotline number remembering victims of suicides.  Members of the Incarnate Word community including the BrainPower schools have done about 200 memorial shirts.   

Main contact in Austin working with this statewide project Bobby Watson bobby@texasimpact.org

UIW Contact Sister Martha Ann Kirk    kirk@uiwtx.edu  or 210-883-5934