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

Summary:
This resolution expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Gun Violence Awareness Month and National Gun Violence Awareness Weekend.


[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 391 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 391

  Supporting the goals and ideals of National Gun Violence Awareness 
           Weekend and National Gun Violence Awareness Month.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2019

  Ms. Kelly of Illinois 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 
           Weekend and National Gun Violence Awareness Month.

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

    (1) 36,000 individuals are killed and 100,000 individuals are injured 
by gunfire;

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

    (3) 22,000 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 on the battlefields of all the wars in the history of the 
        United States;
Whereas, by one count, in 2018 in the United States, there were--

    (1) 340 mass shooting incidents in which not fewer than 4 people were 
killed or wounded by gunfire; and

    (2) 103 incidents in which a gun was fired in a school or college;

Whereas gun violence typically escalates during the summer months;
Whereas nearly 2,900 children and teens are killed by gun violence every year;
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 the first weekend of June to recognize Hadiya Pendleton's 22nd 
        birthday, people across the United States will recognize ``National Gun 
        Violence Awareness Weekend'' and wear orange in tribute to Hadiya, other 
        victims of gun violence, and their loved ones; and
Whereas June 2019 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 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 they are not targets, on National Gun Violence 
                Awareness Weekend;
                    (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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