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BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 10/27/18 01:29 PM EDT
The father of a student killed during February's school shooting in Parkland, Fla., unveiled a life-size, 3D-printed sculpture of his son in Times Square this week to protest the legality of 3D-printed guns.
Manuel Oliver, whose son, Joaquin Guac Oliver, was one of 17 people killed inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentines Day, dubbed the statue the worlds first 3D-printed activist, ABC News reported Thursday.
The figure is dressed how Joaquin Oliver was dressed on the day he died and was personalized with accessories to depict his character, Now This News reported.
Joaquin belongs to a new generation of dead kids and that generation of dead kids is growing and growing and growing every single day, Oliver said.
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bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Best memorial ever to a Family Member. This should be the done for every Victim of Gun violence.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)FirstLight
(13,360 posts)If I was that parent I would have hugged him and bawled my eyes out...
This is a helluva way to memorialize these kids... hope more people do so.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Or how that is even possible.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Seriously?
What is the cost of losing a child?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Do you know?
If you don't know or care, then there's no need to respond.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)It's costing me some pain right now. My son is a coach and I could easily imagine him doing the same as Coach Feis did at MSD that day. He doesn't talk about active shooter drills.
That's one brave, strong father to place that statue.
I'm also curious about the price, but have even more curiosity about the technique of getting dimensions and proportions from, I assume, photos.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)gun violence!