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Ryanne Elizabeth Mace, US gun terror attack victim

Christian evangelical gun-terror fish. Grrrr! In memory of Ryanne Elizabeth Mace, 19, slain in a mass shooting terror attack at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, February 14, 2008

Art: 2015
Media: Ink, gouache, colored pencil on paper mounted on board
Framed, 28 in. H x 18 W [71 cm. H x 45.72 W]

Ryanne Elizabeth Mace, of Carpentersville, Illinois, was one of five students shot to death by a heavily armed terrorist who entered a classroom at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Feb. 14, 2008.
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The gun slaughter of over 1,300,000 Americans and visitors to the U.S. since 1968 is driven by the NRA and their legislative pro-death supporters in governor mansions, state legislatures, the US House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. These terrorism supporting legislators obscenely and hypocritically manage to get elected by calling themselves "pro-life." With between  34 and 38 thousand Americans shot to death every year, among them law enforcement officers, there is nothing “pro-life” in the claim that “pro-gun” is “pro-life.”
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News reports in spring 2016 reported weekly shootings by toddlers in the U.S. wielding guns. The U.S. is the only western nation with violence that is similar to conflict-engulfed countries like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen.
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Ever more guns - as pressed for by the NRA - continues to lead to more and more deaths. It is a genocidal public health crisis. The gun lobby and their political sponsors are anti-infant, anti-child, anti-youth, anti-adult, anti-senior, anti-elderly, anti-faith and and against family values.
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An op-ed I penned, published in The Columbia Missourian, Sept. 13, 2017: “Drowning out the silence of America's gun war.”