By 1968, he had created a tableau of 200 dolls alongside crosses, guns and coffins, and in the same year he relocated to Washington DC to teach at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, where he stayed for four decades.
I try to think of them as tiny, tiny actors". For her part, Grindstaff supervised a team of fellow artists and designers for months in constructing every detail on the one-third-scale set, including small canvas moneybags and wallpaper with a tiny crossed-gun print.
And while not all of those deaths involved semiautomatic weapons, it still seems obvious that we could reduce those numbers by taking some basic, even conservative steps, like banning sales of certain weapons and cartridges, cross referencing gun and health databases, and funding more studies on gun violence.
Yet in his first term, Mr. Obama did nothing to cross the gun lobby, and he actually signed legislation allowing loaded firearms to be carried in national parks.
But even Democratic leaders are afraid to cross the gun lobby, and every year thousands of Americans will continue to die until our elected officials stop neglecting this problem.
Politicians all over the country will take the Colorado recalls as a warning of what could happen to them if they cross the gun lobby.
Individuals obtained IRO membership in secrecy: the initiation ritual involved a formal oath of allegiance over the Gospel or a Christian cross, a gun and a knife; treason was punishable by death, and secret police monitored each member's activities.
Easter does not erase the cross of gun violence, destruction of the environment, the distrust between religious traditions, the unjust prison system, the monied corruption of political systems that plague our country and the world.
"If they see their family member struggling, that's when we want it to cross a gun owners minds to say, 'Maybe it would be safer to ask my friend to hold onto my guns, or store them in a locker at the hunting lodge, or even ask the guy at the gun shop to hold onto them for a while.'".
TV sitcom had crossed American gun law, with the most depressing conclusion imaginable.
Feinstein chastised Congress as a whole for failing to require background checks on all firearms purchases due to its "debilitating fear" of crossing the gun lobby.
