Well Aware

Today, it’s National Gun Violence Awareness Day in America. Gun violence in America is so common, it hardly seems we can narrow our awareness down to a single day. What we need is a Gun Violence Prevention Day. Here’s a stat from WaPo to mark the occasion. More Americans were shot to death by March 6 this year than died on D-Day.

+ Wired: Guns In America: Our Relationship With Firearms In 5 Charts. (See if you can spot some trends that are driving the crisis on America’s southern border…)

+ Oddly, it’s also National Donut Day. Compared to guns, our donut addiction is relatively healthy.