Activists launching gun reform symbol for businesses
Businesses would be able to show their support for gun control legislation by displaying a new symbol set to be unveiled Thursday by advocacy organizations, a survivor of the 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and the parents of a student killed in that shooting.
The Boston-based group Stop Handgun Violence and Parkland-based Change the Ref plan to unveil a new "Gun Safety-Certified" symbol at a press conference in front of the Stop Handgun Violence billboard on Dalton Street in Boston. Attorney General Maura Healey, John Rosenthal of Stop Handgun Violence and David Hogg, a Parkland survivor who co-founded March for Our Lives, are expected to participate.
The new symbol was designed by artists Manuel and Patricia Oliver, whose son Joaquin was among the 17 people killed in Parkland on Valentine's Day 2018. The organizations said the symbol is meant to give businesses a way "to show their support for common sense gun laws like background checks for all gun sales."
In Nov. 2018, the Olivers, Change the Ref and Stop Handgun Violence displayed a billboard they designed that bears an image of their son Joaquin alongside the messages "If I had attended high school in Massachusetts instead of Parkland Florida, I would likely be alive today" and "Gun laws save lives."
The press conference is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at the corner of Boylston and Dalton Streets in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.
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