Title: Supporting the goals and ideals of "National Gun Violence Awareness Day" and "National Gun Violence Awareness Month".
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Gun Violence Awareness Month and National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
Calls on the people of the United States to:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 361 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 361

 Supporting the goals and ideals of ``National Gun Violence Awareness 
          Day'' and ``National Gun Violence Awareness Month''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2017

  Ms. Kelly of Illinois (for herself, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. 
    Gutierrez, Mr. Foster, Mr. Rush, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. 
 Schneider, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Clark of 
Massachusetts, Ms. DeGette, Mrs. Torres, Mr. Payne, Ms. Plaskett, Mrs. 
Lawrence, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Moore, 
Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mrs. Demings, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Khanna, 
 Ms. Barragan, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Richmond, and Mr. Clay) submitted the 
   following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Supporting the goals and ideals of ``National Gun Violence Awareness 
          Day'' and ``National Gun Violence Awareness Month''.

Whereas each year, more than--

    (1) 32,000 people in the United States are killed and 80,000 are 
injured by gunfire;

    (2) 11,000 people in the United States are killed in homicides 
involving firearms;

    (3) 21,000 people in the United States commit suicide by using 
firearms; and

    (4) 500 people in the United States are killed in accidental shootings;

Whereas since 1968, more people of the United States have died from guns in the 
        United States than have on the battlefields of all the wars in U.S. 
        history;
Whereas by one count in 2016, in the United States there were--

    (1) 384 mass shooting incidents in which not fewer than four people 
were killed or wounded by gunfire; and

    (2) 48 incidents in which a gun was fired in a school;

Whereas gun violence typically escalates during the summer months;
Whereas every 70 minutes one person in the United States under the age of 25 
        dies because of gun violence;
Whereas more than 6,300 of such persons die annually, including Hadiya 
        Pendleton, who, in 2013, at age 15 was killed while standing in a 
        Chicago park;
Whereas, on June 2, 2017, on what would have been Hadiya Pendleton's 20th 
        birthday, people across the United States will recognize ``National Gun 
        Violence Awareness Day'' and wear orange in tribute to Hadiya, other 
        victims of gun violence, and their loved ones; and
Whereas June 2017 would be an appropriate month to designate as ``National Gun 
        Violence Awareness Month'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) supports--
                    (A) the goals and ideals of ``National Gun Violence 
                Awareness Month''; and
                    (B) the goals and ideals of ``National Gun Violence 
                Awareness Day'' 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 they are not targets, on ``National Gun Violence 
                Awareness Day'';
                    (C) concentrate heightened attention on gun 
                violence during the summer months, when gun violence 
                typically increases; and
                    (D) bring citizens and community leaders together 
                to discuss ways to make communities safer.
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