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City leaders and "Philly Truce" app work to stop gun violence across the city

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PHILADELPHIA - A group of city leaders, clergy members, and entrepreneurs came together on Thursday to find solutions to the increase in gun violence happening around Philadelphia."Once you make a decision to hurt somebody else, you’ve already basically made a decision to hurt yourself first."Local activists say the city is at war with itself.

Hundreds of people have been shot and killed this year, including a bloody Fourth of July weekend."The city of Philadelphia has been in a constant state of emergency when it comes to the senseless issue of gun violence we’ve been seeing all throughout this city,"Nearly 600 homicides and more than 5,000 shootings have taken place this year in Philadelphia.

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