When to use the tape


Please display Yellow Tape when it is most important to you and your community; like two weeks before elections. Yellow Tape is also used to commemorate nationally remembered acts of gun violence. If there is a date you would like to have included, please contact us. For a more complete listing of gun violence please visit https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

YELLOW TAPE PROJECT DATES:


January

Tuscon Arizona shooting (Gabrielle Giffords) 1/8/11 (6)

Appomattox, Va. 1/19/10 (8)

Sebring, FL bank shooting 1/23/19 (5)

Gonzales, LA 1/26/19 (5)

​January Louisiana shootings (5)

February

Northern Illinois University 2/14/08 (Valentine's Day) (5)

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida 2/14/18 (Valentine's Day) (17)

​Aurora, IL 2/15/2019 (6)

March

Red Lake Massacre, Red Lake, Minn 3/21/05 (10)

Carthage, N.C.  3/29/09 (8)

April

Martin Luther King 4/4/1968

Abraham Lincoln 4/15/1865

Virginia Tech Massacre, Blacksburg, VA 4/16/2007 (33)

Columbine HS Massacre, Littleton, CO 4/20/1999 (15)

May

Santa Fe, TX High School Shooting 5/18/2018 (10)

Santa Barbara, CA Shooting 5/23/2014 (7)

​Virginia Beach, VA 5/31/19 (12)

June

Robert Kennedy 6/6/1968

Pulse Nightclub, Orlando, FL 6/12/2016 (49)

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, SC 6/17/2015 (9)

San Jose,CA 6/23/2019 (5)

July

Dallas Police Shooting 7/7/2016 (5)
Aurora Colorado Theater 7/20/12 (12)

​Chippewa Falls, WI 7/28/2019 (5)

August

Manchester, Conn. 8/3/2010 (8)

El Paso, TX 8/3/19 (22)

Dayton, OH 8/4/19 (10)

Sikh Temple Shooting, Oak Creek, WI 8/5/2012 (6)

Midland-Odessa 8/31/2019 (8)

September

Elmont, AL 9/2/2019 (5)

Washington Navy Yard Washington DC 9/16/2013 (13)

October

Route 91 Music Festival, Las Vegas, NV, 10/1/2017 (59 dead, 546 injured)

Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Oregon, 10/1/2015 (9)

Beltway Snipper, DC Metro Area, three weeks in Oct. 2002 (10)

Seal Beach, Ca.  10/12/ 2011  (8)

​San Juan, Puerto Rico 10/14/2019 (6)

Marysville Pilchuck High School, Marysville, WA 10/24/2014 (5)

Tree of Life Synagogue, Pittsburg, PA 10/27/2018 (11)

Halloween Party, Ordina, CA 10/31/2019 (5)

November

Sutherland Springs Church, TX 11/5/2017 (26)

Fort Hood Massacre Fort Hood Texas 11/5/2009 (13)

Thousand Oaks, CA 11/7/2018 (13)

Plano, Texas 11/10/2017 (8)

​San Diego, CA 11/16/2019 (5)

John F Kennedy 11/22/1963

December

San Bernardino, CA 12/2/2015 (14)

Sandy Hook School Shooting, Newtown, CT 12/14/2012 (28)