Tomorrow (Tuesday 6/2) marks the first-ever National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and Hoosiers are encouraged to wear orange to honor those who are killed by gunfire. The observance stems from the shooting death of a Chicago teen, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton.
Stephanie Mannon Grabow with the Indiana chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America says Hadiya’s friends decided to wear orange to honor her life.
Grabow says more work needs to be done to keep guns from falling into the wrong hands. She says in Indiana, her group is advocating for universal background checks for all firearms.
More than 120 organizations and 50 mayors pledged to wear orange Tuesday to help honor the estimated 88 people killed by gun violence in America each day. According to the Center for American progress, two people are killed by guns in Indiana every day.