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D.C. Pro Sports Teams Announce Donation to Everytown for Gun Safety
Editor’s notice: This story incorporates particulars of a mass casualty occasion and gun violence.
Washington D.C. skilled sports activities groups, together with the Nationals, Commanders, Capitals, Mystics, Spirit, Wizards and D.C. Shadow, introduced on Friday that they might be donating $85,000 to Everytown for Gun Security.
In keeping with the Washington Put up, D.C. United is concerned though they weren’t included within the assertion.
The announcement comes slightly over every week after the mass capturing at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas that left 21 folks useless together with 19 youngsters. Moreover, a mass capturing occurred in Buffalo, N.Y., just a few weeks in the past leaving 10 Black folks useless at a grocery retailer.
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Varied sports activities groups across the nation are collaborating within the Gun Violence Prevention Motion by carrying orange. The Nationals wore orange shirts that mentioned “Sufficient” forward of their Friday recreation vs. the Reds, and the Mystics sported orange shirts previous to their Friday match-up in opposition to the Liberty.
“As we proceed to really feel horror, shock and outrage following final week’s occasions in Uvalde, Texas, the Washington Nationals are teaming up with the Washington Capitals, Commanders, Mystics, Spirit, Wizards and D.C. Shadow to name for an elevated dedication to decreasing gun violence in our area and throughout the nation by means of widespread sense measures,” the Nationals said in a statement.
Together with their very own actions, the groups requested followers to assist by donating to Everytown or carrying orange.
Washington D.C. isn’t the one metropolis to donate to causes concerning gun reform in America. The Chicago Sports activities Alliance donated $300,000 to the Robb Faculty Memorial Fund and the Sandy Hook Promise Basis final week.
Following the Could 24 capturing in Uvalde, Mystics guard Natasha Cloud referred to as out politicians who refuse to make a change relating to gun management. She later mentioned that the current mass shootings have impressed her to enter politics when her WNBA profession is over.