Posted on 05/30/2017 1:37:05 PM PDT by PROCON
Companion measures were introduced last week in both chambers of Congress to promote an awareness campaign backed by gun control groups.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, both Illinois Democrats, each introduced proposals in their respective chambers supporting designating June 2 as “National Gun Violence Awareness Day” and the month of June as “National Gun Violence Awareness Month.”
The resolutions cite that each year 32,000 people in the U.S. are killed and 80,000 are injured by gunfire, and that in 2016 there were 384 mass shooting incidents — figures mirrored by the controversial Gun Violence Archive — to call for support of the goals of the Wear Orange movement.
Backed by Everytown since 2015, the event was inspired by teens who wore orange to mark the birthday of Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton, shot in the back and killed in a park in 2013 a week before President Obama’s visit to the city.
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These animals thrive off of this s hite. Durbin is an asshole beyond measure. The other is a lock step marxist/communist subversive....Not to much news makes it out of shitcago as far as the killings done daily in a state run by another animal from kenyan decent.....screw these punks and let the state bleed ....I have no empathy at all....let
God sort them out.
Thank you.
Wear Orange June 2 as “National Gun Violence Awareness Day”
OPEN CARRY June 2 as “National Gun Violence Awareness Day”
They can make it a holiday in Chicago...
Maybe offer free range time, instead of free zoo?
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