Melt the Guns Memorial (nonfiction)
The Melt the Guns Memorial is a proposed public statue in memory of gun killings.
It was proposed by user tubacat in a comment on the Boing Boing discussion board on July 27, 2019.
The comment reads in full:
I keep thinking about a memorial, or several, made from guns donated by gun owners after each "mass" shooting. One gun for each victim, melted down and cast into something sad and beautiful. With names. Something to always remind us of the cost of someone’s "freedom."
Yes, there’s a large backlog at this point. Do you think there are enough gun owners willing to part with a weapon for each murdered child? We wouldn’t even have to include adults until the children had been remembered. Maybe near the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, if there was sufficient room.
Anyone know an artist who’d be interested?
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External links:
- comment by tubacat @ Boing Boing