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)