Tag: gun
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As Gun Related Violence Rears It’s Ugly Head Again, People Try To Put Pro-Gun Activists In Their Place Using Humor and Sarcasm
It’s becoming an all too familiar pattern in the U.S. at the moment. A shooting occurs, this is followed by lots of debate about gun control, then a few day pass, then everyone goes back to ‘normal’. Except of course for the people affected by the shooting. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have…
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When a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Tightening America’s Gun Laws
This photo is from 1997 in Australia. Mick Roelandts, a firearms-reform manager, looks over prohibited weapons that were handed in under the Australian government’s buy-back scheme. 700,000 guns were bought back. Percentage-wise, that’s the equivalent of 40 million guns in the US. 20 years on, and the breaking news is that dozens of people have…
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Pistol-Shaped Sculpture Made from 168 Rotary Telephones!
Artist Joana Vasconcelos gathered and arranged 168 rotary telephones for her larger-than-life sculpture titled Call Center. The Lisbon-based creative transformed the iconic-yet-dated phones into a shiny, cohesive-looking unit that’s as stunning as it is monumental. Its shape is reminiscent of a Beretta pistol, but the only things coming from this handgun are the fantastic receivers that dangle by…