一年前，我决定每天’d写下或拍摄爱凤凰城的理由。另一个，停止抱怨高温。第一个比第二个更好，尽管在每个我下决心退出解决方案之后。

然后，我在我最喜欢的美甲沙龙中通过了一个展示，并做出了另一个解决方案。一世’m sure the sweet little rhinestone-encrusted 枪 pendant had been there the last several times I’d拜访过，这让我更糟’t notice it til the last week of 2012年12月, a time when images of 枪s (and what people can do with them) was fresh in most of our minds, post-Newtown.

我屏住了呼吸，我站在那里，钱包从我的手晃来晃去，脚趾上湿透了，想知道，“Who would wear 那 ？为什么要庆祝可以杀死人的东西​​？”

I have never felt comfortable in the presence of any type of 枪, never held a real one in my hand, 和 have written about 枪 violence 和 related topics, most recently after the Tucson shooting.

也可以看看： 我的孤立意见

但it took Newtown, for some reason, to shake some sense into me when it came to the 枪 imagery 那 , it turns out, is everywhere.

我于1月1日开设了一个Instagram帐户，专门用于每天（或关闭）分享某种枪支描绘的图像。我在将项目命名为@ 枪show，@ 枪show2013时遇到麻烦，几乎没有名称的每个版本“gun”已被采取。所以@ 2013gunshow它是—笨拙，但它起作用。我毫不费力地找到图像，突然间我看到了它们，社交媒体上的朋友给我带来了更多。

到了七月，我完成了。我不能’不要用步枪，另一个保险杠贴纸和另一个绣花的枕头看另一个连体衣。一世’d发布了100多个图像。点了。

但— point taken? Not really. Beyond posting about it on Facebook I never tried to promote the Instagram account, 和 in the end I think I had a measly 50 followers. People who like 枪s didn’不想让我的鄙夷推到他们的脸上；其余的没有’t want to look at a picture of a kid with a 枪 popsicle in his mouth.

It’就像堕胎（无论您的立场如何）：’只是不想用图像说服任何人。也许有一个事件，更有可能是一个私人事件。

In the end, several states (not my home state, of course) managed to pass 枪 control in the past year. Not the federal government, though. The biggest impact of Newtown, best I can tell, is 那 it sent 枪 sales through the roof nationwide.

至于我’我已经完成了图像的收集工作，所以请（尽管在过去的几个月中我很感激！）停止发送图像。一世’我从2013年的此类决议中休息一下，之后，也许我’ll收集雏菊图像。或贵宾犬。