Official: Discussion about alternative names, imagery, logos etc...

We need better laws and regulations (this includes gun safety courses when purchasing).

I understand why people (in particular millennials and generation z) don’t like them. They fear going to school (parkland, Virginia tech, Sandy Hook, among others) or public places, such as: movie theaters (Aurora movie theater shooting), churches/religious places (Tree of Life synagogue, Charleston Shooting, Sutherland Springs church shooting), bars (Thousand Oaks shooting), stores (Walmart (2 mass shootings happened that store in Texas (at two different locations) last year)), concerts (Route 91 Harvest Festival (Las Vegas) and others. Whether you like them or not, guns were created as weapons for murder (even if that’s not what all people use them for).

The US, has the highest rates of gun violence of any developed nation (1). The other country that is comparable, in the developed nation status, is Canada. They just passed even more gun control laws after their deadliest mass shooting in Nova Scotia back in April. DC has the highest state by state rate at 16.34 per 100,000 people (1).

I go back to what I said earlier. Why do we name a team, after a part of a weapon, that has cause trauma for many people? Especially to those in the city the team represents? It’s insensitive to the victims, their families and the communities effected.

Sources: (1) https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/08/05/743579605/how-the-u-s-compares-to-other-countries-in-deaths-from-gun-violence

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