New Orleans musician 申し込む／申し出s kids trumpets for guns
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A New Orleans trumpeter, vocalist and bandleader is 申し込む／申し出ing kids trumpets in 交流 for guns.
Shamarr Allen started the 事業／計画（する） last week, after a 9-year-old boy was 発射 and killed and two teens 負傷させるd, news 機関s 報告（する）／憶測d.
"I have a 9-year-old son and I grew up in that 環境 so I understand what those kids are going through. They aren´t bad kids, they just don´t have anything to do," Allen told WVUE-TV.
So - after checking with police to make sure that he wouldn't get any kids in trouble and would be able to give police the guns for 安全な 処分 - he 地位，任命するd a 公式文書，認める on his Instagram account: "To all the 青年 in New Orleans, Bring me a gun and I´ll give you a trumpet no questions asked."
Allen told WWL-TV that his life changed when he was 12 or 13 and first played for tips in the French ４半期/4分の1.
"I realized, `承認する, I can do this,´" he recounted. "Now, I´m traveling the world, this is my career because of that trumpet. So if it can do that for me, it can do that for someone else."
FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2009, とじ込み／提出する photo, musician Shamarr Allen plays his trumpet, 調印するd by New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, on the porch of his Ninth 区 home in New Orleans, where he recently 記録，記録的な／記録するd"Glory Bound," an 国家 for the Saints football team. Allen is 申し込む／申し出ing kids trumpets in 交流 for guns. Allen tells news 機関s that he has a 9-year-old son and started the 事業／計画（する） the day after another 9-year-old boy was 発射 and killed. Allen says several musicians have agreed to 申し込む／申し出 解放する／自由な 事実上の lessons to kids who get the trumpets. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber, とじ込み／提出する)
He quickly ran through trumpets he owned but wasn't using. Other people 申し込む／申し出d to help. Then he started an online fundraiser with a $6,500 goal. By Tuesday afternoon - four days in - he'd raised $8,800 for trumpets costing about $250 加える 指示／教授／教育 調書をとる／予約するs. He's also raising money by selling T-shirts with the スローガン "Trumpet is my 武器," WWL-TV 報告（する）／憶測d.
Several musicians have agreed to 申し込む／申し出 解放する／自由な 事実上の lessons to kids who get the trumpets, he said.
"You 選ぶ out the trumpet you want because it´s a lways a bunch of different ones," Allen, who also is getting 寄付するd 器具s, told WDSU-TV.
