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The National Cathedral was bathed in orange light on Friday night as part of National Gun Violence Awareness Day. And the bells rang 109 times to mark the average number of lives lost to gun violence each day in America.
The event started as a tribute to Hadiya Pendleton, an honor student from Chicago, who was gunned down a week after her high school band marched in President Obama's 2013 inaugural parade. The color is the color of safety -- what people in forests wear to avoid being shot by hunters -- as a way of saying stop gun violence. |