HOUSTON — The nonprofit Giffords brings its Gun Violence Memorial to Houston Thursday in commemoration of the thousands of lives lost each year to gun violence.
At 10 a.m., Giffords will hold a press conference at which Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Giffords Executive Director Peter Ambler, Giffords Senior Advisor Ryan Busse, READI Chicago Executive Director Chico Tillmon, Gun Violence Josefina Cannon and Houston Area Women’s Center Assistant General Manager Sonia Corrales is scheduled to speak.
The memorial will be located in Discovery Green Park and will include 4,000 vases – one for every Texan who died as a result of gun violence in 2020. The memorial follows a national installation Giffords unveiled earlier this year in Washington, DC. The National Mall was covered with 40,000 flowers representing Americans who die each year from gun violence. Giffords kicked off the Gun Violence Memorial regional tour with a stop in Philadelphia in August and continued the tour in New York, Los Angeles and Miami.
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The organization said last year that Texas had the 26th highest rate of gun death in all 50 states.
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