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 A Parkland Victim’s Father Designed a New Gun Reform Billboard in Boston

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A Parkland Victim’s Father Designed a New Gun Reform Billboard in Boston

Manuel Oliver says it's a message "to the people of Florida."

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In Massachusetts, a state with some of the nation’s toughest gun laws, a jarring new billboard has popped up over the Mass Pike. It has a challenge for the rest of the nation: Remember Joaquin “Guac” Oliver, and be more like us.

The giant sign that now hangs from the Dalton Street Parking Garage in Boston includes a photo of the 17-year-old killed in the mass shooting at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, along with an eye-catching quotation: “If I had attended high school in Massachusetts instead of Parkland Florida, I would likely be alive today.”

Oliver’s father Manuel, an artist, designed the billboard. It’s the latest big public statement from the group Stop Handgun Violence.

“This message that we’re sending from Boston, from Massachusetts, we’re sending it to the people of Florida,” Oliver says at a Thursday morning press conference. “It’s too late for us to help our son Joaquin, but it’s still early for other parents to save their sons and daughters.”

In what is by no means a coincidence, the billboard emerges in Back Bay with the midterm elections just a week away. Surrounded by a who’s who of Massachusetts Democrats, Oliver showed up for the unveiling in a T-shirt reading “JUST F**CK!NG VOTE,” and says he is filling out a ballot for the first time this year. His state is in the midst of a competitive gubernatorial race, and received a visit from President Trump just last night. He didn’t endorse any candidates, but urged voters to reject anyone backed by the NRA.

This isn’t the first time Oliver has put his artistic eye to work for the cause. He and his wife Patricia founded a group in their son’s memory called Change the Ref, which aims to push for gun laws via public art. Last week it unveiled a 3D-printed likeness of his son in Times Square, in protest of 3D-printed weapons. He also painted a mural outside an NRA conference in Dallas that depicted Trump as the leader of a circus and NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch as a clown.

Also on hand for the unveiling were some of the high schoolers who led a march this summer from Worcester to the Smith & Wesson firearm factory in Springfield. Oliver joined the teens in their demonstration this year, walking with them while wearing his son’s sneakers.

Stop Handgun Violence has sought to draw contrasts between gun-related statistics in Massachusetts to those in other states where laws are more lax, and by its count the state has a firearm fatality rate that’s about a quarter of Florida’s. It’s trying to get the state’s policies enacted across the country, including an assault weapons ban, background checks for private gun sales, and measures like the so-called “red flag” law, which passed in Massachusetts this year.

A bill filed by Sen. Ed Markey, who spoke at the unveiling, would provide incentives for states that adopt Massachusetts’ gun laws, called the MASS Act. The bill is doomed, of course, at least for now.

With the election inching closer, though, the group hopes the shock-inducing billboard and Oliver’s advocacy will motivate reform-minded voters, help nudge NRA-backed politicians out of office and, eventually, get meaningful laws passed.

“Until we take action and … are as passionate on gun violence prevention legislation as the NRA and gun rights groups are on stopping legislation, we reap what we sow and there are deadly consequences,” says Stop Handgun Violence founder John Rosenthal.

Rosenthal was also responsible for another iconic highway billboard near Fenway Park, which criticized the nation’s gun laws and featured a digital ticker counting the rising number of dead in real time. After staying up for nearly 20 years, it came down in 2015.

“This is Joaquin’s billboard,” Rosenthal says of the new one. “And Joaquin is looking down at us saying, ‘What are you going to do?'”
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I think it's absolutely disgusting that he's using his dead son's image as part of his political agenda.

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Yeah seriously this shouldn't be his kids legacy.
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Here are some of the campaigns mentioned in the article:

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Last week it unveiled a 3D-printed likeness of his son in Times Square, in protest of 3D-printed weapons.

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He also painted a mural outside an NRA conference in Dallas that depicted Trump as the leader of a circus and NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch as a clown.

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Rosenthal was also responsible for another iconic highway billboard near Fenway Park, which criticized the nation’s gun laws and featured a digital ticker counting the rising number of dead in real time. After staying up for nearly 20 years, it came down in 2015.
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It's a guilt-trippy virtue signal. Simple as.

I should add that the fact that this is probably gonna be this poor kid's legacy is disgusting. Reminds me of Rachel Scott becoming a martyr instead of being remembered for who she was as a person.
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The only Parkland parent who in my opinion didn’t try and make their deceased child into a libtard icon was Andrew Pollack, father of Meadow Pollack. He in fact opened a playground in her name, called “Princess Meadow’s Playground”.

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The only Parkland parent who in my opinion didn’t try and make their deceased child into a libtard icon was Andrew Pollack, father of Meadow Pollack. He in fact opened a playground in her name, called “Princess Meadow’s Playground”.
Shoutout to Andrew Pollack.
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