The city will light City Hall, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Queens Borough Hall, Bronx Borough Hall, Staten Island Borough Hall and the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building the color orange, the Mayor’s Press Office said in a statement.
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On Thursday (June2), several folks from all across the Natural State are taking a stand on National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
On Jan. 29, 2013, 15-year-old Chicago high schooler Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed, just one week after being in President Obama’s inauguration ceremony.
The Wear Orange campaign didn’t start at such a national level, though.
Another group member, Caroline Skidmore, calls gun violence an epidemic.
Which is why Stacey says she fully supports a campaign that will save lives from gun violence.
“One is to close loop holes to background checks in America so that risky folks don’t get guns”, says Kinsella-Shea. What is Wear Orange Day? She, her husband and his parents were killed by criminals trying to steal their vehicle, she told a harrowed crowd as she stood before them wearing bright orange. “Since Americans are 25 times more likely to be murdered with guns than people in other developed countries, this is an issue to which all leaders should be paying attention”.
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It’s been just over three months since police say Jason Dalton shot and killed six people while injuring two others at three different locations in Kalamazoo County. What she didn’t anticipate, she said, was how many clergypersons would respond: By week’s end, she’ll have made 38 or 40 for clergy as far away as Louisville, Ky., and Memphis, Tenn. A group of high schoolers asked their classmates to wear the color in her honor. Melissa Schaffer, who joined Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America because she said she felt helpless and unable to do anything.
