Have you ever wondered what happens to guns collected at local buybacks? One Oakland artist transforms the firearms into gardening tools.
Something remarkable is happening at John Rogers' workshop in East Oakland . Guns capable of taking life are being transformed into instruments that nurture it. For the last couple of years, Rogers, a sculptor and blacksmith, has been part of a national movement that turns surrendered weapons into gardening tools. 'I'm an anti-gun violence person definitely, so I feel very strongly about it,' he said.
In addition to the garden tools, for the last three decades, he's been forging old pistols and rifles into dragons, critters, and mythical creatures. Growing up in a military family, Rogers was introduced to firearms at an early age. Since then, he's witnessed the devastation of gun violence up close after a friend was killed in a murder-suicide. The hope is that his works of art force people to think differently about the weapons.
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