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| Brianna, 9, getting AK-47 out of truck during training session. |
As I read and viewed Brian Blanco's remarkable photo essay "An Amendment Revisited" I was deeply and profoundly upset. There was this acute visceral reaction that went way beyond being merely alarmed or even repulsed. I was certainly all of those things but there was much, much more. Whatever it was kicked me in the gut.
Last December Blanco photographed a training session of the North Florida Survival Group (NFSG) led by Jim Foster, a former cop. “The government is trying to disarm us,” said Jim. “There weren’t enough dead bodies to do it before, but now they’ve got the bodies of 26 dead kids and I’m afraid that’s enough for them to get what they want.”
The purpose of the NFSG is to teach children and adults how to handle weapons and how to survive in the wild. Big Jim refers to it as a "militia" because, you see, he and his fellow members are willing to die to defend the Constitution, especially the Second Amendment. I prefer to call them what they really are: "domestic terrorists" and abusive parents.
There is so much that comes through in these brilliantly colored photos besides how silly these sick clowns look playing war games in all their paranoid fantasies Look closely at the faces of these children. Do they look like your average happy and well adjusted kids? And this little girl - at 9 years old with dyed hair already. This is beyond sick. Beyond disturbing. Beyond depressing.
Last December Blanco photographed a training session of the North Florida Survival Group (NFSG) led by Jim Foster, a former cop. “The government is trying to disarm us,” said Jim. “There weren’t enough dead bodies to do it before, but now they’ve got the bodies of 26 dead kids and I’m afraid that’s enough for them to get what they want.”
The purpose of the NFSG is to teach children and adults how to handle weapons and how to survive in the wild. Big Jim refers to it as a "militia" because, you see, he and his fellow members are willing to die to defend the Constitution, especially the Second Amendment. I prefer to call them what they really are: "domestic terrorists" and abusive parents.
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| Waiting to join others in enemy contact drills. |
There is so much that comes through in these brilliantly colored photos besides how silly these sick clowns look playing war games in all their paranoid fantasies Look closely at the faces of these children. Do they look like your average happy and well adjusted kids? And this little girl - at 9 years old with dyed hair already. This is beyond sick. Beyond disturbing. Beyond depressing.
While the government isn't likely to take away their guns (unfortunately) maybe the children can still be saved from growing up paranoid, screwed up and angry. After going through the main article be sure to link to the photo gallery appropriately called Training Child Survivalists. If you wonder when was the last time these kids were hugged, I don't think you'll be alone.
