Lives Before Guns

by Leanne Seymour

Title

Lives Before Guns

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Leanne Seymour

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Digital Art - Digital Art Card Poster

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I created this simple digital image today after hearing over the last two days of the horrific and tragic shooting in USA Las Vegas (Oct 2017).

I live in Australia where we have strict gun laws which restricts folks from buying certain kinds of weapons, and this has prevented these kind of mass shootings from happening here ever since the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania Australia in 1996.

Now I repeatedly read and hear about the resistance to gun law changes by American folk at large citing the 2nd Amendment in the American constitution as justification for this. But this law was adopted in 1791 and weapons were different then. The kind of automatic weaponry that's around these days were not around in 1791, so what's the issue with USA government growing up and taking real responsibility for this societal problem and if it can do nothing else, then at the very least ban automatic weapon ownership by the general public.

I create this simple statement out of respect for lives lost at this time due to a crazed gunman having access to an automatic weapon. I create this image as a tribute to lives lost too many times because of the USA gun culture where guns are 'big business' and lives take secondary place to gun ownership.

Lives must always come first for without that belief and understanding what kind of a society are we or are we becoming. Commentary here in Australia has been sombre and realistic on this issue and I pray that this doesn't have to happen repeatedly for real change to happen. It seems to me that the American Gun Lobby has folks of its proud country by the proverbial throat through it's insistence in literally using the 2nd Amendment in an effort to maintain it's blatant denial of the reality in this situation and all others.

All I can say now as I try to deal with my own grief around this situation is God bless America and help it to wake up and face the realities of what it needs to do to protect it's people. The reality is we live in a world that's not perfect and where troubled souls act out in the most horrific ways at times, so we need to set up some reasonable legal boundaries to protect the innocent.

My apologies if this image or my description disturbs anyone, but it has to be said!

Peace and Namaste

Artist: Leanne Seymour

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October 3rd, 2017

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