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How visitors to the Pipsqueak Gallery feel about Cynthia Linet’s “Gun Show” will likely depend on how they feel about guns. To gun-averse Seattleites, the reaction may be shock. Linet’s paintings of an armed population, based on photographs taken from the Internet, drive home what it means to live in the country with the highest level of civilian gun ownership in the world. There are guns in holsters, guns in garters, guns in underwear, guns held by children and youth. A little girl holds one with a “Hello Kitty” logo, a teenager wearing a hoodie covered in peace symbols fires a gun and a baby chews on the barrel of a revolver. There are images of an armed Jesus (the photo that inspired the painting was posted online with the caption “Blessed are the armed for they shall inherit the earth.”) Even pro-gun advocates might find some paintings unsettling, like the man holding a pistol behind a naked woman’s back, with the caption, “Give Your Honey a Gun for Christmas.” These — more than the paintings based on militia recruiting posters, KKK symbolism or militarized police — drive home the idea that we live in an armed society.

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