RuQuan Brown knows how it feels to lose a loved one to gun violence.
In September 2017, Brown’s teammate and friend lost his flourishing life to gun violence.
He launched a merchandise business called Love1 in 2019 aimed at raising awareness of the devastation gun violence causes families, especially African American households.
According to findings by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the United States is said to have the 28th highest rate of deaths from gun violence globally – 4.43 deaths per 100,000 people in 2017.
Another study notes that the gun homicide rate in the United States is 25 times higher than other high-income countries and that the phenomenon is most prevalent in racially segregated neighborhoods with high rates of poverty with Black Americans representing the majority of gun homicide victims.
