Let's create a victim of gun violence quilt

[Pryderi]

In the early '90s I volunteered at an AIDS quilt event and it was emotionally devastating.

Maybe we should do the same thing for victims of gun violence.

[babylonsister]

1. I think that's not a bad idea. There are so many. :( nt

[Pryderi]

2. 30,000/year. n/t

[handmade34]

3. I'm interested...

ideas???

edit to add link to 1993 quilt

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19930728&id=0KokAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NqEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5775,7024285

[Pryderi]

4. Follow the same blueprint. Tell the story of a victim in a quilt square. see link

http://www.aidsquilt.org/about/the-aids-memorial-quilt

[handmade34]

6. maybe

a quilt for each year since 1993... so many names

[Pryderi]

7. I'm willing to bet that the loved ones of the victims would want to

tell their story in a quilt square.

[Pryderi]

5. Nice link! Wasn't that when the Brady Bill was passed? n/t

[msongs]

8. make that a "victim of gun owners" quilt would be more accurate since as we hear over and over,

guns don't kill people, people do.

[gopiscrap]

9. I saw one of those quilts at Columbia U in NYC in April of 1995

pretty impressive....yes, let's do it.

[NightWatcher]

10. 20 1st graders got mowed down and nothing was done

A quilt won't get anything done.

I was hopeful that the Sandy Hook tragedy would've changed things, but it didn't.

[LuckyLib]

11. It would stretch from sea to shining sea and back again.