Wear Orange marches started back in 2013 after 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed on a playground in Chicago, and her friends commemorated her life by wearing orange, since hunters wear it in the woods to protect themselves and others. Quotes from his speech were carried at Friday’s rallies. “Imagine being that little girl, that brave little girl in Uvalde, who smeared blood off her murdered friend’s body on her own face to lie still among the corpses in her classroom and pretend she was dead in order to stay alive,” Biden said. Thursday night, President Joe Biden made an emotional address calling for similar measures nationwide, including a ban on assault weapons. It includes raising the age to buy a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21, and revising the state’s red flag laws. In Albany Thursday, in the final hours of the legislative session, the Democrat-controlled legislature passed sweeping gun legislation, which Gov. “I’m sad to see all the children who haven’t been able to grow up to my age yet,” said seventh grade student Oldany Colot. The Wear Orange organization says 40,000 people have been killed with guns, and 85,000 are shot and wounded every year.
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Wearing orange is part of a three day movement that pushes for a future free from gun violence. In Union Square Park Friday afternoon, students wearing orange walked out of school to kick off Wear Orange Weekend.Ĭhopper 2 was also above students walking out of class in the morning in crown heights, Brooklyn. “And this is about the gun violence that is occurring all over our city from illegal gun access,” said organizer Macella Guarino.
We felt helpless, shattered, didn’t know what to do, where to go,” said Zara Terez Tisch. I #WearOrange for my mother, and the 8 others killed in Emanuel AME Church, 2015. People Around the Nation March to End Gun Violence During Wear Orange Weekend - The Tennessee Tribune Close Search for:
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