By Cleo and Nate Pendleton
...Following Hadiya’s tragedy, (click here) her classmates came together and asked everyone in the community to band together to take a stand against gun violence. Just as hunters wear orange to alert other hunters of their presence, Hadiya’s classmates asked the community to wear orange to symbolize the value of human life.
Wearing
orange is a way to honor Hadiya’s life and the lives of all others
affected by gun violence, and it has sparked a movement across the
country. It’s called #WearingOrange.
This isn’t a
statement about the Second Amendment or gun ownership. It’s about
recognizing that we have a gun-violence problem in our community and in
our country. Put simply, if you believe there is more we can do to save
American lives from gun violence, wear orange.
