Thirty-two people were murdered with firearms at Virginia Tech, and thirty-two people are murdered with firearms every day in this country. We’ve asked politicians, strangers, allies, and activists, “What are you going to do about it?�

One response to that question has been given by independent groups of individuals in cities across America in recent weeks. In Virginia, New York, Maryland, Illinois, and Texas, ordinary people are demonstrating their outrage at our weak gun laws by staging “lie-ins� – where thirty-two people, dressed in black, lie motionless on the ground – to commemorate the thirty-two murder victims at Virginia Tech.

In the two months since the Virginia Tech shootings, there have been at least a dozen of these lie-ins nationwide. Some of the cities where activists have staged these protests are:

• McLean, Virginia (Photo)
• Silver Spring, Maryland (Photo)
• New York, New York (Photo)
• Chicago, Illinois (Photo)
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lie-ins are also planned for Dallas and Houston this weekend.

Though these dramatic demonstrations of public outrage were not started or organized by the Brady Campaign (credit for these simple, powerful demonstrations belongs to Abby Spangler), we encourage our friends and activists to participate any way they can.