(Photo by Valters Krontals)

(Photo by Valters Krontals)

If you happen to be in Southeast on Friday morning and notice a parade of people clad in black and holding mounted animal heads aloft, well, you probably already would have assumed PETA was involved.

The protesters will head to a lobbying office of the National Rifle Association to call for an end to “all gun violence, including by hunters” in the wake of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the animal rights organization said in a release.

“As every decent person rages against the slaughter in Orlando, let’s recognize that the culture of gun violence often starts with hunting helpless animals,” said PETA Vice President Dan Mathews, who is also a gay rights activist. “PETA wants gun control advocates to stop giving hunters a free pass, because there’s nothing responsible about fostering, often at a young age, a sadistic urge to kill.”

According to PETA (which recently compared women’s rights to chicken rights), a taxidermy collector “who was moved by the massacre in Orlando” donated the collection, which includes a baboon, a deer, and mountain goats, among other animals.

The organization is also collecting donations for the “victims’ beloved animal companions, who are wondering when the people they called family will come home.”