Amino Ammo: Breeding a Culture of Violence addresses man’s inhumanity to man. This silent one-minute experimental, moving-image video clip is a metaphor for the breeding of gun violence prevalent in America today that starts in utero. Amniotic fluid protects the fetus in the womb, but weapons and distorted 2nd Amendment interpretations may be seen as the protection once born. Instead of a birth certificate, it seems as if these radicalized newborns are issued NRA Second Amendment certificates that justify the bearing of arms for the destruction of civil liberties, institutions, and fellow citizens who go against their cultural belief that a Constitutional democracy is a terroristic threat.
Six months into 2022, the United States experienced at least 246 mass shootings.
. May 14, 2022, 10 people dead, 3 injured during a racist attack at a Buffalo, NY supermarket.
. May 24, 2022, 21 people dead, 17 injured when a gunman targeted a 4th grade class at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
. The weekend of June 3-5, 2022, there were at least 11 mass shootings including:
- 14 people shot near a nightclub in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 14 people shot in a busy shopping district in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 8 people shot at a graduation party in Summerton, South Carolina
- 5 dead at Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma
. 2021 – 692 mass shootings
. 2020 – 610 mass shootings.
. 2019 – 417 mass shootings. **
** Gun Violence Archive