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Gun Statement

It is with great sadness that the National Theatre Conference feels the need to post a statement about our country’s exploding epidemic of gun murders.  I fear this will be outdated by the time we print it, with Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York being the two most recent brutal murder scenes. We are all painfully aware that many of these mass shootings in our country are fraught with racist intentions and the murders are propped up by a vocal minority of white supremacists.  As of May 26, there have been over 27 school shootings in 2022. There have been over 200 mass shootings this year and it is not even June. As of May 31, there have been at least 14 mass shootings in the U.S. since the Uvalde murders, killing at least 10 people and wounding another 61, and they have gotten much less attention.
 
 Clearly, change needs to happen. Thoughts and prayers cannot raise the dead.  So we mourn the loss and encourage everyone to get involved in the struggle for change.  We can’t keep doing the same things while our country is awash in unregulated guns and murder.

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