{"id":36967,"date":"2018-02-19T11:15:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=36967"},"modified":"2018-02-20T12:39:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T17:39:26","slug":"guns-into-plowshares-sculpture-is-the-site-of-a-vigil-for-florida-shooting-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/guns-into-plowshares-sculpture-is-the-site-of-a-vigil-for-florida-shooting-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Guns Into Plowshares’ sculpture is the site of a vigil for Florida shooting victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

A vigil hosted by Trinity Presbyterian Church\/Rally the Valley gathered at Eastern Mennonite University on Sunday evening to honor\u00a0and commemorate the 17 students and staff killed last Wednesday by a young man with an assault weapon in Parkland, Florida.<\/p>\n

The group used as their gathering place the immense “Guns\u00a0Into Plowshares\u201d sculpture located on campus. The 16-foot-tall, 4-ton sculpture depicting a plow is covered with more than 3,000 handguns<\/a>. It was dedicated in an October 2017 ceremony during which speaker Daryl Byler, executive director of EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a> reminded the gathered of the prevalence of gun violence in the United States.<\/p>\n