Gun violence is a full-blown national crisis—one that, on an...

Gun violence is a full-blown national crisis—one that, on an average day, claims 91 American lives, including seven children and teens. Our gun murder rate is 25 times higher than other countries like ours. And women are 11 times more likely to be murdered with a gun here than in our peer countries.

So today, on National Gun Violence Awareness Day, let’s wear orange—together. 

Above, Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, at their Tucson, Arizona, home. Photographed by Norman Jean Roy, Vogue, March 2013.

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