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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 651 

Expressing support for the designation of June 3, 2022, as ‘‘National Gun 

Violence Awareness Day’’ and June 2022 as ‘‘National Gun Violence 

Awareness Month’’. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 26, 2022 

Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. 

BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. REED, Mr. 

CARDIN, Mr. CASEY, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. LUJA ́N, and Ms. BALDWIN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 

the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing support for the designation of June 3, 2022, 

as ‘‘National Gun Violence Awareness Day’’ and June 

2022 as ‘‘National Gun Violence Awareness Month’’. 

Whereas, each year in the United States, more than— 

(1) 38,500 individuals are killed and 85,000 individuals are wounded by gunfire; 

(2) 15,000 individuals are killed in homicides involving guns; 

(3) 23,000 individuals die by suicide using a gun; 

and 

(4) 490 individuals are killed in unintentional shootings; 


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•SRES 651 IS 

Whereas, since 1968, more people have died from guns in the 

United States than have died on the battlefields of all the 

wars in the history of the United States; 

Whereas 2021 was one of the deadliest years on record for 

the United States, with an estimated 20,700 people killed 

in gun homicides or nonsuicide-related shootings, a 6 percent increase over 2020; 

Whereas unintentional shooting deaths by children recently 

increased by nearly 1⁄3, comparing incidents in March to 

December of 2020 to the same months in 2019; 

Whereas, by 1 count, in 2021 in the United States, there 

were 693 mass shooting incidents in which at least 4 people were killed or wounded by gunfire; 

Whereas, since 2010, 65,000 veterans of the Armed Forces 

have died by suicide in the United States, with the overwhelming majority of such deaths being the result of a 

firearm; 

Whereas, every year in the United States, more than 3,500 

children and teens are killed by gun violence and 15,000 

children and teens are shot and wounded; 

Whereas approximately 8,500 people in the United States 

under the age of 25 die because of gun violence annually, 

including Hadiya Pendleton, who, in 2013, was killed at 

15 years of age in Chicago, Illinois, while standing in a 

park; 

Whereas, on June 3, 2022, to recognize the 25th birthday of 

Hadiya Pendleton (born June 2, 1997), people across the 

United States will recognize National Gun Violence 

Awareness Day and wear orange in tribute to— 

(1) Hadiya Pendleton and other victims of gun violence; and 


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(2) the loved ones of those victims; and 

Whereas June 2022 is an appropriate month to designate as 

‘‘National Gun Violence Awareness Month’’: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) supports— 

3 (A) the designation of June 2022 as ‘‘Na4 tional Gun Violence Awareness Month’’ and the 

5 goals and ideals of that month; and 

6 (B) the designation of June 3, 2022, as 

7 ‘‘National Gun Violence Awareness Day’’, in re8 membrance of the victims of gun violence; and 

9 (2) calls on the people of the United States 

10 to— 

11 (A) promote greater awareness of gun vio12 lence and gun safety; 

13 (B) wear orange, the color that hunters 

14 wear to show that they are not targets, on Na15 tional Gun Violence Awareness Day; 

16 (C) concentrate heightened attention on 

17 gun violence during the summer months, when 

18 gun violence typically increases; and 

19 (D) bring community members and leaders 

20 together to discuss ways to make communities 

21 safer. 

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