(LRN)

Jonathan Ferrara has produced over 170 exhibitions in New Orleans, across the United States, and Europe on his book "Guns in the Hands of Artists."

Ferrara, who lives in New Orleans, created a provocative exhibition 20 years ago that merged guns with artists.

Louisiana is the most homicidal state in America per capita in a country where every day, there are 35 gun homicides, 60 gun suicides, and 200 people who survive getting shot.