{"id":5097,"date":"2023-08-22T14:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:03:47","slug":"bob-donovan-blames-milwaukee-leaders-for-weekend-shootings-democrats-blame-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5097","title":{"rendered":"Bob Donovan Blames Milwaukee Leaders for Weekend Shootings; Democrats Blame Gun Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/bob-donovan-blames-milwaukee-leaders-for-weekend-shootings\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/bob-donovan-blames-milwaukee-leaders-for-weekend-shootings\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bob-donovan-mask.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bob Donovan Announces Run Bob Donovan State Assembly bob donovan mask\" title=\"Bob Donovan\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI am directing our Office of Violence Prevention to take every reasonable step to educate, intervene and mediate so that we can reduce the gun violence here.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> -Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson<\/p>\n<p>A Wisconsin Democratic congresswoman wants more done at the federal level to stop the type of gun violence that left 24 people shot and three dead in Milwaukee over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee\u2019s Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore blamed gun laws for the weekend shootings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCombating the gun violence crisis requires a collective effort, and I remain committed to championing efforts in Congress to invest in what works and to strengthen our gun laws to prevent these deadly weapons from flowing unabated into our communities and ending up in the wrong hands, including initiatives that have bipartisan support but continue to be blocked,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Police say the weekend shooting tally included a shooting that left nine people wounded, a separate shooting that saw four people wounded and a double shooting that left a 17-year-old girl dead.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson on Monday said that cannot happen again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI insist our criminal justice system fully prosecute and punish those responsible for this violence,\u201d Johnson said in the statement. \u201cI am directing our Office of Violence Prevention to take every reasonable step to educate, intervene and mediate so that we can reduce the gun violence here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Republican State Rep. and former Milwaukee city councilman Bob Donovan said Milwaukee leaders need to do more on their own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo mass shootings over the weekend left a path of death and destruction in Milwaukee. Where is the plan from the city and Mayor Johnson? I cannot believe how public safety in Milwaukee has deteriorated in the last three years. Mayor Johnson owes the citizens a strategy to turn this chaos around. After all, he promised he would when he was elected to the city\u2019s highest office,\u201d Donovan, R-Greenfield, said. \u201cThe beleaguered citizens of Milwaukee and the surrounding area deserve that. I am a member of the Assembly who represents a portion of Milwaukee residents and I stand committed to working with Milwaukee to address this chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/bob-donovan-blames-milwaukee-leaders-for-weekend-shootings\/ \u201cI am directing our Office of Violence Prevention to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":5099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5100,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions\/5100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}