Hi John,

Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day—also known as Wear Orange—a day when gun violence prevention advocates across the country wear orange to honor the victims of gun violence and show support for the gun safety movement.

Wear Orange was started in 2013 after 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed in Chicago just one week after she performed at President Obama’s second inauguration. Her friends and family chose to wear orange—Hadiya’s favorite color and the color hunters wear to protect themselves from gunfire—to honor her life and the tens of thousands of lives lost to gun violence every year. Since then, the gun violence prevention movement has carried on their efforts by wearing orange the first Friday in June.

Wear Orange will look different this year, but COVID-19 and the murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others have made it clear that the fight against gun violence and the systemic inequities that make our Black and brown communities more vulnerable to both the coronavirus pandemic and the gun violence epidemic is more important than ever.

So we’re asking you to join us in wearing orange today in solidarity with the victims and survivors of gun violence. Here’s what you can do:
1. Wear something orange!
2. Take a photo of yourself and any family or household members in your orange attire.
3. Share the photo on social media with a sentence about why you #WearOrange. Ex: I #WearOrange because I believe that gun violence is preventable.
4. Use the hashtag #WearOrange and tag @wagunresponsib on Twitter or @AllianceforGunResponsibility on Facebook and Instagram.
5. If you don’t have social media accounts, you can email a photo to [email protected] and we will share them from our accounts!

In this time of uncertainty and division, we hope you’ll join us today in this display of solidarity.

Best,
Kristen

PS - Our virtual luncheon recording will be available soon!

PAID FOR BY ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY

P.O. Box 4187
Seattle, WA 98194
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