Title: A resolution expressing support for the designation of June 1 through June 3, 2018 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend" and June 2018 as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month".
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Expresses support for the designations of: (1) June 2018 as National Gun Violence Awareness Month; and (2) June 1-June 3, 2018, as National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 524 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 524

 Expressing support for the designation of June 1 through June 3, 2018 
    as ``National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend'' and June 2018 as 
               ``National Gun Violence Awareness Month''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 24, 2018

Mr. Durbin (for himself, Ms. Duckworth, Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. Hirono, Mr. 
Menendez, Mr. Reed, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Markey, Mr. Carper, Mr. Murphy, Mr. 
   Blumenthal, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Coons, Mrs. 
 Murray, and Mr. Brown) submitted the following resolution; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing support for the designation of June 1 through June 3, 2018 
    as ``National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend'' and June 2018 as 
               ``National Gun Violence Awareness Month''.

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

    (1) 35,000 individuals are killed and 80,000 individuals are injured by 
gunfire;

    (2) 12,000 individuals are killed in homicides involving firearms;

    (3) 21,000 individuals commit suicide by using firearms; and

    (4) 500 individuals are killed in unintentional shootings;

Whereas, since 1968, more individuals 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, by one count, in 2017 in the United States, there were--

    (1) 346 mass shooting incidents in which not fewer than 4 people were 
killed or wounded by gunfire; and

    (2) 64 incidents in which a gun was fired in a school or college;

Whereas gun violence typically escalates during the summer months;
Whereas nearly 2,700 children and teens are killed by gun violence every year, 
        including Hadiya Pendleton, who, in 2013, was killed at 15 years of age 
        while standing in a Chicago park; and
Whereas, during the weekend of June 1 through June 3, 2018, the weekend in which 
        Hadiya Pendleton would have had her 21st birthday, people across the 
        United States will recognize National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend and 
        wear orange in tribute to Hadiya and other victims of gun violence and 
        the loved ones of those victims: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) supports--
                    (A) the designation of June 2018 as ``National Gun 
                Violence Awareness Month'' and the goals and ideals of 
                that month; and
                    (B) the designation of June 1 through June 3, 2018 
                as ``National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend'' in 
                remembrance of the victims of gun violence; and
            (2) calls on the people of the United States to--
                    (A) promote greater awareness of gun violence and 
                gun safety;
                    (B) wear orange, the color that hunters wear to 
                show that they are not targets, during the weekend of 
                June 1 through June 3, 2018;
                    (C) concentrate heightened attention on gun 
                violence during the summer months, when gun violence 
                typically increases; and
                    (D) bring community members and leaders together to 
                discuss ways to make communities safer.
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