We live with our guns like we live with our lamps.
Loaded.
The gun debate is one of the most common and polarizing in American culture. At this point, it could also be seen as one of the most fruitless. Nothing is changing, so let’s just fact the fact that we live with our guns like we live with our lamps.
Loaded embraces this laissez-faire way of thinking about guns in our culture.
But there is one problem. Can a gun exist in a painting like it exists in the background of our lives? Or is the image of a gun loaded with the kind of meaning that forces a viewer to limit his or her interpretation of what’s happening? If so, does the gun inevitably kill our imagination?
