BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Marrington Middle School Of The Arts and Macedonia Middle School students are among 23,000 other South Carolina students to take part in South Carolina’s 15th annual Student Pledge Against Gun Violence.
According to the United States Attorney’s Office, students in middle school and high school are signing a voluntary pledge and promising that they will never take a gun to school, will never resolve a dispute with a gun, and will use their influence to prevent friends from using guns to resolve disputes.
Elementary school children are making a simpler commitment, pledging that if they see a gun they will not touch it, they will assume that any gun they see might be loaded, and they will tell a teacher or a trusted adult.
The effort is part of South Carolina’s Project Cease Fire, which is South Carolina’s implementation of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods program, aimed at reducing gun violence.
The Student Pledge Against Gun Violence is a national program that recognizes the role young people, through their own decisions, can play in reducing gun violence. This campaign against youth gun violence culminates each October in a A Day of National Concern about Young People and Gun Violence.
The program provides a means for beginning the conversation with young people about gun violence. Students from around the country will join together in pledging to do their part. Over the years, millions of students nationwide have signed the pledge.
This year, more than 23,000 students from 46 schools across the state have agreed to take part in the pledge.
For additional information concerning the pledge, visit the national Student Pledge website at www.pledge.org
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