Tom Parker, an announcer for a TV show called Freedom Forum on a Lafayette, Louisana, cable network, worries about Obama's recent executive orders. "The bottom line is they are all over-reaching." He doesn't want the government deciding which citizens can own guns worries that medical confidentiality will erode if doctors have to report mentally ill patients.

On Sunday, meanwhile, two New Orleans churches took part in the Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath, with hundreds attending services. During a sermon in St. Peter Clavent Church, a priest read out the names of people killed by bullets, starting with Martin Luther King and ending with the children and staff killed at Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

When he asked the audience to call out the names of people lost to gun violence, countless voices rang out, including that of Tirza Williams, who lost her 19 year old cousin Joseph Veal. "It is our job to keep our kids as safe as possible." she said. President Obama's 23 executive orders and a ban on assault weapons are steps in the right direction, she said. "My community doesn't need more guns. Too many lives have been ended with bullets."

Meanwhile, on Monday, five people were shot on New Orleans's MLK Boulevard following a parade honoring Martin Luther King's birthday. According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans police chief Ronal W. Serpas had this to say: "It's the state of affairs in our nation that young men do not heed the words of Martin Luther King Jr."

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