Models display school-shooting-themed sweatshirts designed by streeetwear brand Bstroy. (via Bstroy/via Bstroy Instagram) (Bstroy/Instagram) Streetwear brand Bstroy is getting heat from school shooting survivors and gun control advocates to stop producing a line of clothes featuring sweatshirts with names of schools that have had mass shootings–complete with bullet holes.= The sweatshirts reference shootings at Columbine High School , where 13 people were killed in 1999; Virginia Tech , where 32 people were killed in 2007; Sandy Hook Elementary School , where 26 people were killed in 2012; and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School , where 17 people were killed in 2018. The brand started getting negative attention on Sunday when the co-founder posted photos of the clothes on Instagram . It didn’t go over well. “Under what scenario could somebody think this was a good idea?” tweeted Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter died in the Stoneman Douglas shooting. “This has me so upset.” Under what scenario could somebody think this was a good idea? This has me so upset. If any of my followers no anybody involved with this clothing line, please ask them to stop it immediately. https://t.co/VzAlog0TCt — Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) September 17, 2019 The aunt of another […]
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