In the end, Amare was too much for OKC to handle, getting the Suns to within two on a three-point play and tying it on free throws. Now, their nine-game winning streak was snapped by a Steve Nash-less Suns team, thanks to a furious rally in the fourth, coming back from 10 down in the final four minutes of play. I know, I’ve been heaping praise on OKC every other day, but I can’t help it. The best part is that they truly like each other and their reactions after a big play are awesome. Just so young and fun and improving by the day. I chose to go with Oklahoma City - I know, I know, a travesty for a Lakers fan– but what can I say, the Thunder have me. With two games coming down to the final shot, I wished more than ever that I have picture-in-picture. See more of his work here.By Holly MacKenzie / what a night. Zed Nelson is a London-based photographer. But it’s hard to ignore the fact that heavily armed young men massacring innocent people has become a too-common feature of contemporary American life. Some argue that there is no link between the proliferation and the easy availability of firearms and the huge annual death toll. All his purchases, both in person at a gun store and via the Internet, appear to have been legal, including buying a 100-bullet magazine for his semi-automatic military assault rifle. Prior to the shooting, the killer was reported to have amassed a terrifying arsenal of four guns, 6,000 rounds of ammunition and sophisticated bullet-proof armour, without breaking a single law. This time a 24-year-old opened fire at a packed cinema showing the new Batman movie, killing 12 people and injuring 58 more. This summer, Denver was in the news again, reeling in the aftermath of its latest gun massacre. This, combined with suggestions from local and national commentators that tragedies like Columbine could be prevented if teachers were armed, goes to show how complicated and contradictory the gun debate really is. The full scale of America’s Catch-22 could be seen in the nearby city of Denver, just days after the Columbine High School massacre, when the staunchly pro-gun National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention took place in the very same city. Gun shops opened for business as usual and people continued to sell weapons from the back of their cars at flea markets and over the Internet. The local newspapers were full of shock, rage and sympathy, but on the back pages in the classified ads there were more guns for sale, freely available without permits or background checks. Surely the time had come when public opinion would demand a strengthening of U.S. At that time, witnessing groups of weeping children, floral tributes and candle-lit vigils, I thought surely this obscene event would be a catalyst to change America’s deadly love affair with the gun. They killed 12 of their classmates and a teacher, and left a community reeling in shock. In 1999 I visited Columbine, Colo., in the immediate aftermath of a school shooting rampage by two teenage pupils armed with a variety of deadly weapons. states, passed a law in 2011 allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons. The national federal ban on assault weapons has expired, and Wisconsin, joining many other U.S. In fact, the laws controlling the trade and ownership of guns have actually gotten weaker. What is most disturbing about the 13 years that have elapsed since my immersion into American gun culture is that nothing has changed, nothing has improved. This time a crazed gunman (male, as usual) with a semi-automatic handgun shot six people dead at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Then another mass shooting, only two weeks after, on Aug. ![]() A decade after first documenting America’s obsession with firearms, this latest atrocity seemed all too familiar. On hearing news reports of another recent horror-the bloody shooting rampage in a cinema in Denver on July 20, I felt a depressing sense of deja-vu. Nelson's photographs originally appeared in the Jissue of TIME
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