On Friday, the Paris-based artist JR unveiled "The Gun Chronicles," artwork featuring images of 245 Americans who represent various viewpoints on the gun debate.
This was done in collaboration with Time magazine's interactive special report on gun violence in America...
This link has more about the cover and how JR got involved in its creation.
Overnight, someone added an 11 — representing the number of victims in yesterday's Pittsburgh synagogue massacre — in red paint...
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There are now flowers at the scene, as the mural is becoming a memorial following yesterday's hate crime.
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There should be more added to that wall with just the daily gun related violence in the country. The news media and the politicians focus too much on the mass murders that individual, gang-related and even excessive police force from guns gets isolated and taken for granted.
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Memorials are respectful. Voting is impactful.
I was on East Houston Street today just staring at it. It is a great Mural and just the fact that it was put on the wall by JR on Friday and the horror in Pittsburgh happened on Saturday is incredible. The firearms depicted in the mural are probably the exact same weapons that the killer used. This country needs to wake up and realize that there is no justification, reason or room for people to own assault weapons in our society.
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