Less than two months have passed since attorney and Boulder resident Lindasue Smollen paid for an anti-gun violence billboard on Colo. 93, and as of Monday, she changed the message again.
The sign now gives a list of seven mass shootings in the United States — including the Aurora theater shooting — the number of people killed and the fact that the shooter used an AR-15 rifle. The death toll of 205 does not include 11 people killed Saturday at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Smollen is laying down $3,000 a month for the space — and $500 for the graphics — and she said she will continue to change the message in an effort to keep it as timely as possible.
“My sense about the billboard is I want to keep this very present in people’s minds,” Smollen said. “I want the conversation to continue.”
In September, Smollen bought space on a billboard just south of the Boulder/Jefferson county line, that pointed out that more than 1.4 million Americans have died from gun violence since 1970, a higher number than all Americans killed in all wars in U.S. history, about 1.3 million.
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