Armed America - Portraits Of Gun Owners In Their Homes
Armed America - Portraits Of Gun Owners In Their Homes
Kyle Cassidy traveled 15,000 miles over two years photographing Americans in their homes and asking one question: “Why do you own a gun?” A good question, particularly since most of these guns are not easily reconcilable with the notion of self-defence and their true place should be somewhere in the Armed Forces. All the photo were later compiled in the book with its German edition being published this year.
March 15th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Barefoot kids (has the mother just finished anointing their feet and wiping them with her tresses–her hair does look greasy enough?); a mysteriosly blank shield on the wall, perhaps with the bar sinister covered in butchers’ paper; a large, industrial-size Christian cross on what looks like an altar; a large, industrial-size American mother cradling an assault rifle; and the indoor dog starting to have a dump in the middle of the family armoury.
Delightful!! And we know, from the filled garbage bag before the window, that the indoor dog is well fed and regular, unless they bring the outdoor dogs’ doodoo inside to burn upon their altar.
The weaponry (and the attack dogs, both indoor and outdoor) will be used to either greet or repulse Christ in His Second Coming.
Whether it’s to be fired into the air in rejoicing, or into His head in revulsion, Christ had best give these people an advance sign, as they’re ready, Teddy, and loaded for bear.
Jesus, you’d best be packing a Bible (and not the Duoay version); an industrial-sized Jacob’s Coat of many colours, heavy on the earth tones; and a large sack of Krispy Kreme donuts when you come a’calling if you want to worm your way into this family’s good graces.
March 15th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Guns’n'Poses…
I’d find that pic laughable if it didn’t scare the bejasus out of me.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:51 am
It may scare the bejasus out of you, Mic, but unfortunately it doesn’t scare the bejasus out of gun loving Americans and those who are parents who own them! Grade school children are taking their parents’ guns to school to scare their classmates or worse. High school teens are taking guns to school to shoot teachers, principals and other classmates who get on their ‘hit’ list for whatever reasons they have to ‘get even’ with them. Little children 4 and 5 find their parents’ guns laying around, pick them up, play with them and accidentally kill a sibling. Teenagers get high on drugs or alcohol and play russian roulette with their friends and a bullet just happens to be the next in the chamber. Mentally disturbed ex-college students take rifles and guns to campuses and massacre students known and unknown to them. More and more teenagers are no longer going to their rooms to sulk when their parents tell them ‘no’ they can’t do this or that, they now kill them with their own guns. Innocent little children are getting shot and killed in the cross-fire in fights between gangs and/or the drug dealer and buyer.
March 17th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Sad , Cheryl, very sad….
I checked out the website that this article links to, and read some of the comments from the gun-toting eejits that feature in the photos. It’s even more scary than the gleam in the eyes of those kids in the picture above.