{"id":154942,"date":"2018-03-02T00:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T05:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=154942"},"modified":"2018-03-02T00:50:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T05:50:24","slug":"group-takes-credit-for-vegas-shoot-a-school-kid-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/02\/group-takes-credit-for-vegas-shoot-a-school-kid-billboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Group takes credit for Vegas ‘Shoot a School Kid’ billboard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The billboard action was to spur debate about \u201cinadequate gun laws that are currently placing value on assault weapons over that of human life.\u201d(Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LAS VEGAS – A guerrilla art collective claimed credit Thursday for changing a freeway-side billboard inviting Las Vegas tourists to fire high-powered assault-style rifles to read, \u201cShoot A School Kid Only $29.\u201d<\/p>\n

The altered advertisement, which had said \u201cShoot a .50 calibre only $29,\u201d was taken down within hours and police began an investigation after the vandalism was reported, Officer Larry Hadfield said.<\/p>\n

An email statement from the activist group INDECLINE took credit for the protest.<\/p>\n

A telephone caller who said he represents the group but refused to give his name provided the statement to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

It said the billboard action was to spur debate about \u201cinadequate gun laws that are currently placing value on assault weapons over that of human life.\u201d<\/p>\n

INDECLINE also took credit for putting statues of a naked Donald\u00a0Trump<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in cities around the country in 2016.<\/p>\n

The man said the group provided a video to KTNV-TV showing at least two people wearing dark clothing scaling the billboard and pasting strips on the sign with the words \u201cSchool Kid\u201d and \u201cDefend Lives Reform Laws.\u201d A person climbing a ladder appeared to be wearing a wool mask.<\/p>\n

The billboard was not far from the site of the worst mass shooting in modern American history. The Oct. 1 attack killed 58 people.<\/p>\n

The spokesman said the billboard action also took inspiration from the Feb. 14 school shooting that left 17 people dead in Parkland, Florida.<\/p>\n

Employees at Battlefield Las Vegas, the gun range that invites tourists to shoot a semi-automatic rifle, referred questions to managers who did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages.<\/p>\n

The billboard near Interstate 15 is about 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometres) from Mandalay Bay resort, where a gunman fired more than 1,000 shots from 32nd-floor windows into the crowd at an open air concert before killing himself.<\/p>\n

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