Tribute · Gun Violence Awareness Month
One dispatch a day, every day this month, on the one American fact we have all agreed to live around.
Hunters wear orange in the woods so no one mistakes them for prey. After fifteen-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was shot dead in a Chicago park in 2013 — a week after she performed at a presidential inauguration — the people who loved her put on that same color and asked the country to see them the way the woods sees a hunter: as a human being, on purpose, not to be fired on. Every June since, on what would have been her birthday, the orange comes back. This is our month of it.
On Tuesday, June 30 — the last day of Gun Violence Awareness Month — the Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to two laws that ban AR-15-style rifles: Connecticut's assault-weapons ban, rewritten…
Read →A little after midday on Monday, June 22, a man with an SKS rifle opened fire in Côte-des-Neiges, a heavily Jewish neighborhood in Montreal, near a grocery store and within sight of Jewish schools…
Read →Over Juneteenth weekend, Chicago was hit by a wave of gun violence: at least seven people killed and thirty-eight wounded since Friday evening, by the Associated Press count, including a mass…
Read →On Thursday, June 18, New York City threw a ticker-tape parade up the Canyon of Heroes for the Knicks' first NBA championship in fifty-three years. Close to two million people filled lower Manhattan,…
Read →On August 27, 2025, a gunman fired through the windows of Annunciation Catholic Church in south Minneapolis during a back-to-school Mass, killing eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel and ten-year-old…
Read →Yesterday marked ten years since the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando — 49 killed on a Pride-Month Latin Night, the deadliest attack on LGBTQ+ Americans in the country's history. Orlando read the…
Read →On June 6, the median of North Sherman Boulevard across from Sherman Park filled with blaze-orange yard signs, each one carrying the face and name of a Milwaukeean killed by gun violence — a…
Read →A California state senator just said the sentence most American politicians won't — responsible gun ownership laws reduce gun violence — and her numbers prove it. Catherine Blakespear published her…
Read →This is Orange June, Day 6, and there is no letter today — just one line on a chart, and the question it asks. Every school shooting in the United States, counted year by year from 2000 to 2025:…
Read →Over the weekend of June 5–7, two shootings blocks apart in Bronzeville wounded four boys — ages 12, 13, 13 and 14 — and by Monday the person of interest Chicago police were questioning was himself…
Read →On June 5 — the day the country wore orange — you signed a law banning the sale and importation of handguns that can be cheaply, easily converted into fully automatic machine guns. Not a ban on…
Read →On June 6, dozens of people put on orange and walked through Louisville in the End Gun Violence Awareness Walk — organized by the Mothers of Murdered Sons and Daughters of Kentucky, the group you…
Read →On April 16 you introduced S.4339, the Virginia Plan to Reduce Gun Violence Act of 2026 — thirteen gun-safety provisions, lifted from the laws Virginia already passed, written into one federal bill.…
Read →Today the country wears orange. Hunters wear orange in the woods so no one mistakes them for prey. In 2015 a group of Chicago teenagers borrowed the color for their own streets, to say the same thing…
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