CT Against Gun Violence announced that on Thursday, June 2 at 1:00pm there will be an event at Greenwich Town Hall to raise awareness of gun violence.
“Ever since the Sandy Hook School shooting nearly 10 years ago, the Town of Greenwich has been a leader in Connecticut for raising awareness among its residents about the crisis of gun violence in America,” said Jonathan Perloe, CT Against Gun Violence communications director on Wednesday.
The Board of Selectmen voted to join Mayors Against Illegal Guns in 2013 and in 2015 First Selectman Tesei joined a Brady Campaign initiative to lobby the Attorney General of the United States to crack down on “bad apple” gun dealers.
Greenwich twice hosted a rally for Team 26 as they rode from Newtown to Washington, D.C.
The tradition will continue at Thursday’s event where First Selectman Fred Camillo will read a proclamation on the steps of Town Hall at 1:00pm and declare June 2 Gun Violence Awareness Day in Greenwich.
Please join the First Selectman and others to take a moment to honor the victims of Uvalde, Buffalo, and the lives lost to gun violence here in Connecticut and around the nation, to recognize the survivors whose lives have been forever altered, and to pledge to do what we can to end gun violence in Connecticut and beyond.
Participants are encouraged to wear orange. Why Orange?
Wear Orange was inspired by the friends of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old Chicago student killed by gunfire just days after participating in President Obama’s 2013 inauguration.
June 2 is the birthday of Hadiya Pendleton, a teen who marched in President Obama’s 2013 inaugural parade and tragically became a victim of gun violence one week later. Hadiya’s friends chose to wear orange on her birthday because hunters wear the color orange to protect themselves, and signal others, “don’t shoot.”