Sentences with phrase «gun culture as»

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«Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?»

Along with the possibility of raising the age for purchasing a gun, the commission will study the effects of factors such as violent video games that contribute to what DeVos called a «culture of violence» in U.S. schools.

And like the United States, Australia had both an entrenched gun culture and a pro-gun lobby (though not nearly as strong).

The familiar response played out as the shooting again cracked open fissures in American politics and culture about guns, a debate that seems ever more entrenched.

The issue of self - defense came up, and Maxwell — a rape survivor — said that guns are not necessarily rape prevention and that, as a culture, we need to start examining cultural biases and teaching men not to rape.

Santorum crusading as a culture warrior in a time when people need jobs not prayers is like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

While county Democrats contend that the shows would increase the likelihood of illegal gun sales as well as work to promote «gun culture» in Westchester, Republicans maintained that disallowing the shows infringed on residents» constitutional rights.

But the chance to hone them could be in jeopardy thanks to an asinine bill from a downstate Assembly member who wants to ban air rifle and archery as school sports on the ridiculous assumption that shooting on a school team creates a «gun culture.»

«This work also could evaluate how regional differences — such as social gun culture, gun ownership and other factors — contribute to the significant regional variation in firearm legislation.»

As we've come to expect from these type films, the dialogue is loaded with numerous goofy puns and timely pop - culture references that always provide entertainment for the grown - ups, but I don't think we've ever had them thrown at us at such a machine - gun like pace.

Columbine remained a major story for days, and during that period, politicians, activists, and commentators used it as evidence to justify their calls for a wide range of measures, including tougher gun laws, restrictions on adolescents» access to violent popular culture, and so on.

Documented actions and interventions such as Gordon Matta - Clark's (1943 - 78) BB gun window blow out, Gianni Motti's (b. 1958) appearance at the VIP box of the French Open wearing an Abu Ghraib - style hood, and Chris Burden's (b. 1946) TV hijack, will be seen alongside works by Dan Colen (b. 1979) and Nate Lowman (b. 1979) whose hijacked landscapes have become vehicles for the slanders and libels of a malignant culture of pollution, racial slurs, and tarnished reputations.

Although Lowman's work is influenced by such earlier appropriation artists as Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, and Cady Noland, his own brand of image recycling disperses into an unstructured installation - environment in which posters, record jackets and silk - screened imagery create a large - scale narrative that ruminates on specific issues, from American gun culture to celebrity cults.

PRESENTED BY DASHBOARD U.S. CURATED BY SUSANNE SLAVICK LOCAL ADDITIONS CURATED & COMMISSIONED BY DASHBOARD Opening at Marcia Wood Gallery / April 28, 6 - 10 pm On view April 28 - May 20, 2017 As the National Rifle Association hosts its 146th annual meeting in Atlanta (April 27 - 30), Dashboard US welcomes UNLOADED, a multimedia group show that explores historical and social issues surrounding the availability, use, and impact of guns in our culture.

A socio - political critique of contemporary gun culture is addressed in Reyes's Palas por Pisto / as (2008), in which the artist worked with local authorities in Culiacan, Mexico, to melt down guns into shovels, intended to plant trees in cities elsewhere in the world.

Born and raised south of San Francisco, Norling hails from a recent generation of artists raised on the fun and gun ethos of graffiti and the mark - making of urban street culture; from stickers to wheat - pasted posters, it is from this street aesthetic; one that is in dialogue with Norling's teacher Raymond Saunders, as well as younger artists such as Barry McGee and the late Margaret Kilgallen, that Norling's paintings, sculptures and installations derive much of their impact.

After studying with Diane Arbus and working at Condé Nast's big gun magazines as an art director, Kruger immersed herself in turning the images of consumer culture into art; she has been exhibiting in museums and galleries since the 1970s.

Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur - Fascism, from Hermann Goering's fondness for a phrase from a Hanns Johst play («When I hear the word «culture» I reach for my gun») to the frequent use of such expressions as «degenerate intellectuals,» «eggheads,» «effete snobs,» and «universities are nests of reds.»

But I don't like right - wing propaganda that masquerades as truth, theocratic anti - intellectual / anti-science rhetoric, Fox News, rampant social and economic inequality, the idiot culture of reality TV, and of course guns, to name a few.

Even though Lord Woolf wrote about the end of the culture of using expert hired guns as «adversarial tools» way back in 1999 when the new form of civil procedure rules first came into force, some solicitors have not got the message.»

Beyond the wedge issues of the culture wars, such as gun control and abortion, the one thing all presidential candidates can agree on is improving the economy.

I didn't grow up hunting and shooting: I fit in better with «Gun Culture 2.0 ″ than I do with guns as an outdoor recreation (but I'm trying to change that).

I suspected that the «culture of the gun» was just as firmly entrenched on the streets of Scarborough as it was in Harlem, and the average Canuck wouldn't fare out any better in a street interview about peculiarities of the USA than Rick Mercer's hapless Yankee victims did when quizzed about the supposed state of affairs in our Great White North.