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'Freedia Got a Gun': Film Review

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Hip-hop artist and New Orleans native Big Freedia estimates she has personally known 60 to 70 individuals killed by gun violence.

One of them is her younger brother, Adam Ross, who was slain in 2018. Police have yet to make any arrests, but, Freedia recalls, "a few people" reached out after his murder to offer retaliation.

She refused; there's been enough death in her life. The title of the new documentary Freedia Got a Gun feels wrong, even if its allusion to a (mostly forgotten) anti-war novel and film adaptation implies that what we need is an immediate battle against the scourge of gun violence.

The approach that Freedia advocates for isn't more combat, but care: mediation among armed teenage boys and young men by trained.

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