What are we willing to sacrifice for our ideals? Too often the discussion about guns in America gets wrapped up in emotional terms around the 2nd Amendment. With this piece I want to bring the discussion back to an individual human level. In 2016 I began addressing the indelible stain that gun violence has made on American society by creating a match burn effigy of the weapon used in the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, FL. Frustrated by the increasing ideological polarization of our country and lack of nuanced conversation about gun violence since then I have revisited this work by painting on top of it. I have dissected the gun revealing its internal organs. This is the fragile anatomy of the humans that are on both ends of the weapon. With the addition of the school desk I'm asking you to come closer and respond to this image as a child might. Please use the paper and pencils provided to share your own thoughts and feelings about where we go from here.