Durbin, Duckworth, Kelly Introduce Resolution Establishing "National Gun Violence Awareness Month"

Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) ^ | 5/24/2018 | Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)

[mdittmar]

To bring attention to the issue of gun violence, Americans are encouraged to wear orange the weekend of June 1st - 3rd – June 2nd would’ve been Hadiya Pendleton’s 21st birthday

U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL) led 14 other Senators and 25 other Representatives to introduce a resolution in the House and Senate establishing the weekend of June 1-3, 2018 as “National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend” and designating June as “National Gun Violence Awareness Month.”  Every day in America, an average of around 300 men, women, and children are shot, nearly one-third of them fatally.  Establishing a month to bring attention to the issue of gun violence honors the thousands of Americans who are victims of gun violence every year, including Hadiya Pendleton who was shot and killed in Chicago, Illinois on January 29, 2013.  The resolution also urges citizens and community leaders to concentrate heightened attention on gun violence during June, when gun violence typically spikes at the start of the summer months, and to work together to make our communities safer from this violence. 

“June 2^nd would have been Hadiya Pendleton’s 21^st birthday.  To honor her and the tens of thousands of people who are killed by gunfire each year, I will be proud to wear orange on ‘National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend,’” said Durbin.  “There have been too many funerals, too many families and communities devastated by gun violence.  During ‘Gun Violence Awareness Month,’ I urge Americans of all backgrounds and political views to come together and focus on ways to keep Americans safe from this gun violence epidemic.  That should be something that everyone can get behind.”

“Far too many of our friends and loved ones have had their lives tragically cut short by senseless gun violence,” said Duckworth.  “I encourage Illinoisans and Americans across the country to wear orange on June 2nd to remember Hadiya Pendleton on what would have been her 21st birthday and honor the countless victims of needless gun violence around the country. In the wake of Parkland, Santa Fe and Las Vegas, the need to take action that will protect our children and keep our communities safe from gun violence has never been more clear or more urgent. It’s time to act.”

“As we prepare to celebrate what would have been Hadiya Pendleton’s 21st birthday, another community – Santa Fe, Texas – is asking the same questions that too many Chicagoland families ask everyday: why us? Why my child? Why here? And why do Republican policymakers keep letting this happen? This is America – moms shouldn’t be afraid to send their children to school, the park or the corner store,” said Kelly. “The American people are committed to passing lifesaving, common sense safety laws; polls, rallies and increased political engagement make that clear. Congress must listen to American families. It’s past time to enact common sense gun safety laws and support our young people in picking up pencils and books instead of weapons.”

Along with Durbin and Duckworth, U.S. Senators cosponsoring the resolution include: U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Jack Reed (D-RI), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Ed Markey (D-MA), Tom Carper (D-DE), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Patty Murray (D-WA).

Along with Kelly, U.S. Representatives cosponsoring the resolution include: Nanette Barragan (D-CA-44), Joyce Beatty (D-OH-03), Don Beyer (D-VA-08), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-03), Tony Cardenas (D-CA-29), Katherine Clark (D-MA-05), Lacy Clay (D-MO-01), Steve Cohen (D-TN-09), Danny Davis (D-IL-07), Ted Deutch (D-FL-21), Bill Foster (D-IL-11), Marcia Fudge (D-OH-11), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL-04), Alcee Hastings (D-FL-20), Bill Keating (D-MA-09), Ro Khanna (D-CA-17), Jim Langevin (D-RI-02), Betty McCollum (D-MN-04), Gwen Moore (D-WI-04), Donald Payne, Jr. (D-NJ-10), Stacey Plaskett (D-VI-AL), Cedric Richmond (D-LA-02), Bobby Rush (D-IL-01), Mike Thompson (D-CA-05), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12).

Gun violence is an issue that affects communities in every state across the country.  Each year, more than 35,000 people in America are killed and 80,000 are injured by gunfire.  The weekend of June 1 – 3, 2018, people across the nation will join together in the fourth annual “National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend” and will wear the color orange to bring attention to the issue of gun violence. 

[bravo whiskey]

I will wear my orange NRA hat and mt GLOCK with the orange dot on the front sight.

[Maudeen]

I guess they are feeling left out and wanted to be noticed in the news. They and their comrades are responsible for Illinois’ “armpit of the nation” status.

[yoe]

How about "Second Amendment Month"?

The left will never give up their attempts to take your guns away from you. Just they will not give President Trump a day's rest from their insults and lies.

[goodnesswins]

We need a CAR VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH first...such idiocy these people exhibit.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Hey Dick, how about the U.S. Border Patrol Officer killed by Democrat Barack Obama and Democrat Eric Holder with a “Fast and Furious” gun?

Are you going to raise awareness about that, too?
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[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Hilarious!!!

[holymoly]

Despicable, disingenuous Marxist Democrats.

A study by Johns-Hopkins has revealed that 250,000 people die, each year, as a result of medical malpractice.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us

The average American is eight times more likely to die at the hands of an incompetent medical professional, than from the use, or misuse, of a firearm.

I.E. “Surgeon who filmed rap videos while operating on patients faces lawsuit”
http://www.cbs46.com/story/38280159/surgeon-who-filmed-rap-videos-while-operating-on-patients-faces-lawsuit

And these traitorous leftists couldn't care less.

The only hindrance to their Marxist plans, is an armed civilian populace. And so they, and their duplicitous allies in the media, have waged a decades-long war on the Second Amendment.

[fish hawk]

well hell I guess that ends all school shootings then eh?
I’m sure this useless crap makes those morons “feel” like they have actually done something for our country.

[GreyHoundSailor]

That’s really a bright idea - everybody wearing orange is unarmed. Next month these idiots will want to ban the color orange because it triggers criminals.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

When is “National $hithead Politicians Month?”

Oh, I forgot....it’s every month.

Durbin, Duckworth and Kelly are their ringleaders.

[RetiredTexasVet]

“...designating June as “National Gun Violence Awareness Month”....”

designating June as “National Gun Violence Awareness Month in Chicago and Illinois.” as they are kinda slow on the uptake!

[eyeamok]

The first step should be an even playing field:

Any person who has in their employ or employed on their behalf, for hire or compensation, any person in possession of any firearm or weapon, shall be considered to be in possession of a Weapon or Firearm.

Eliminate their Hired Guns that they rely on for protection.

[Chode]

in that case, i'll wear RED!!!

[depressed in 06]

A national ban on Bolshekrats from public office would save more lives than any gun ban or observance.

[Charles Martel]

Wear orange? Naah, there are better options.

[Impala64ssa]

And how many of these co-sponsers are "ethically challenged" Funny how the most vociferous hoplophobic gun grabbers tend to have serious ethical and legal issues of their own. And it's the same as it ever was. One of the first gun control laws, the Sullivan Laws of 1911. What the gun grabbers don't tell you is WHO those laws are named for. Big Tim Sullivan, a Tammany Hall operative even more corrupt than the Clintons. He wanted to make the streets of NYC safer, for him and his cronies as well as the muggers and gangster in his back pocket. After all victims who can shoot back are bad for business.
Charles Rangell, never mind his tax evasion issues, that POS should've been arrested for obstructing justice, if not aiding and abetting in the murder of NYPD Officer Phillip Cardillo.
Jesse Jackson Jr. who did time for embezzlement.
Fmr Cong Corrine Brown, recently convictied of similar offenses.
Here's a doozy, fmr Cong Leeland Yee, friend of Shannon Watts, aka Gun Control Barbie, who introduced legislation that would've effectively nullified the 2A, forced to resign because he's in Federal prison for..wait for eet....GUN RUNNING.
Remember anti-gun liberal talk show host sensation Bernie Ward? He was gonna put Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity in their place. He's spending the rest of his miserable life as a registered sex offender after doing time for kiddie porn.
And speaking of pervs fmr Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, a charter member of Everytown for Gun Sense who declined to seek re election. could it be because he's under investigation for molesting a bunch of young boys including his 8 yr old cousin?
The gun violence death clock put up near Times Square. It was funded by Robert Brennan, a junk bond dealing scam artist who makes Bernie Madoff look like Mother Theresa. He had just gotten out of the joint for securities fraud and other such niceties. I'm sure he had a pragmatic reason for performing this public service. Hey, if I scammed those old folks out of their life savings i too would be scared sh!tless if they their kids or grandkids had easy access to firearms. Just Saying.

[Impala64ssa]

And the hits just keep on coming! NY Assy speaker Sheldon Silver, a gun grabber from way back FINALLY convicted of some of those corruption charges.
Fmr NY AG Eric Schneiderman, who like another gun grabbing ex NY AG Elliot Spitzer got himself in a nasty trick bag involving sex abuse. Seems he gets off on beating his mistresses senseless as well as hurling racial insults at one of them who immigrated from Senegal. Without even holding a press conference denying the charges he resigned within mere hours of the allegations surfacing, gotta be a new world record.
And here's another doozy, Kenneth Glasgow, Al Sharpton's half brother and gun control activist who spoke at a march for our lives rally spewing the usual meaningless rhetoric about ending the epidemic of gun violence and increase the peace. He's currently in jail facing a capital murder charge. Soon after the rally he hooked up with a bunch of other thugs, intent on robbing someone. One of his accomplices shot a woman with an ILLEGALLY OBTAINED HANDGUN. These examples are just the tip of the iceberg. But what can we expect from the Dems, who booed G-D at the 2012 convention, and support MS13?

[lewislynn]

Finally someone is doing something concrete, truly effective about gun violence. < /sarcasm >

[Kickass Conservative]

How about don’t run over and Murder a White Policewoman Month?

[GailA]

ROFLOL makes me want to go buy another handgun, I’d like something with a little more punch than my .38 revolver. It has to be a small revolver, Arthritis in hands, and I can’t rack an automatic or clean it.