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The first days of shoot were in St. Louis. And I 

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have to say that I've never seen that much weapon in 

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my life. It was a whole new universe to me. We're 

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here doing a very special mural for the cover of Time 

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Magazine. It's a metaphor of what's happening in the 

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US. In France we don't have any relation with guns, 

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and so I'm discovering the whole issue all together. Hi. 

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How are you. I'm good. I'm JR. [ UNKNOWN ] Nice to 

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meet you. Nice to meet you. I love your hat. A lot of 

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people do, I have to travel armed just to protect the 

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hat. Yeah, I'm sure. I cannot wait to start 

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seeing it all come together, and then hearing what 

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everybody had to say. You can put it back, and back 

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to position. I assumed it's gonna give us a spectacular 

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image at the end. And three, two, one, and cut. 

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I think I was about nine, or ten, years old when I heard 

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the first gunshots in our neighborhood. I personally 

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will not touch a gun. It is a death machine. 

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It took me getting shot in a small Southwest Virginia 

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French class to realize that gun violence can happen to 

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us anywhere and that we, in fact, have done very little 

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to keep guns away from From dangerous people. We 

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must stop killing each other. Great, and then hold the 

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position. We find ourselves emersed in the 

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gun violence ocean, and we're drowning in 

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it. Just because it doesn't happen to you doesn't mean 

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it doesn't happen. We have very lax gun laws. And 

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that is scary. And I want these words out there, 

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because these are words that need to be heard. There 

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werr people that just expected that somehow my views 

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on guns would change. That horrible incident only 

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solidified my strong beliefs that you want law- abiding 

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citizens to be able to defend themselves and others 

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because Cuz there are bad guys out there. I think 

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it depends on who's holding the gun, and how you 

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want that bullet to penetrate before you fire the gun. 

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We're all human beings, and at the end of the day we 

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all wanna make it home. [ MUSIC ] When I hear of a 

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school shooting, or if I hear of somebody that got 

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raped or murdered I'm just like appalled thinking 

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about what happened to them. And it's like, I wish they 

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could protect themselves. It's disheartening as a gun 

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owner and as an NRA member, to continually get 

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bullied. I think it allows people who don't agree with 

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the gun issue to really hate me, when I don't feel like 

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I'm hateable. And we're gonna do it one more time. 

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One, two, three and action [ SOUND ] I look good. You 

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look good that's for sure. I look intense. Yeah. Like I'm 

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ready for something. You can close your 

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eyes and then I'm gonna say look 

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The moment that changed my perspective on 

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becoming a gun owner was the moment that I saw and 

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heard the fear in the voice Of the children that I have 

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given birth to. [ MUSIC ] All I have was this to protect 

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them. I think 

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the firearm in the world, it's here, it's a necessary evil. 

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An armed society is essential to 

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maintaining a free society. [ MUSIC ] 

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All the you know is dangerous. Men, black men in 

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America with a gun. [ MUSIC ] The second minute they 

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shown as day by day they did it's not applied to us. 

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[ MUSIC ] It was never meant for us. [ MUSIC ] 

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I'm trans, I'm Republican, I'm originally from rural 

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Mississippi, I live in San Francisco. I'm pro- free speech 

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and pro- guns, I'm just not what people expect to see. 

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If you put this one we almost can see the both of them, 

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no? People are astounded by it. They don't hear about 

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teenage girls Shooting guns. I have a whole shelf in my 

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room that is now occupied by ammo, and gun gear. 

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And so I don't even think I can imagine my life without 

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competitive shooting. Wow, cool. And now look back at 

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the x. [ MUSIC ] I 

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agreed to be part of this project because I think it's 

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important to represent the middle. In 

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2018, the middle is a very difficult place to be. 

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I'm a trauma surgeon. We have patients who are shot 

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on a regular basis. I also been a lifetime shooter so 

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yeah, I made a debate within myself. I 

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love guns and I hate gun shot wounds. [ MUSIC ] This 

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project seems to me a really neat and innovative way 

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to force people to have a conversation about first the 

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things we agree on On and you know maybe the 

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political routes to try to settle our differences on the 

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parts that we don't agree on. To watch students 

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themselves say, okay you adults. You 

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know, you've messed things up some, let us take 

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over, was completely inspiring to me. This is what 

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democracy looks like. We will not be silent. Exactly, up, 

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hold it, hold it. Stop killing people. That's cool, right? 

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I'm gonna mark it five which means it's gonna get on 

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the cover. Welcome. My God! Wow! Wow! Since 

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we knew that you were gonna be doing This we've 

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been researching all the things you've done in your 

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young life, amazing. Thank you. And it's a pleasure to 

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meet you. This is going to be their country. Their going 

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to be running it for me someday and I think that adults 

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need to listen to our youth a lot more. They're more 

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informed and aware of things then I certaintly was at 

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their age. [ MUSIC ] It's very 

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fascinating going through the process because the 

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debate it is not necessarily where you think it is. And 

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the walls and the barriers are not necessarily where 

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you thought they were. [ MUSIC ] 

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Those people that are now Part of this mural. They 

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maybe don't know it, but they are linked to each other, 

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because they'll always be part of the same mural. Even 

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if they don't share the same ideas. [ MUSIC ] I 

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really hope that they will like to really listen to each 

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other. And I hope people will join this conversation. 

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