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I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill

Commissioned after the insurrection, these works explore the growing tactical industry that teaches American civilians to fight like Special Ops forces. Photographed at Gunsite Academy, the longest running civilian tactical firearm training facility.

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“You ask yourself, Is my world safe?’

“You should feel angry at the target,” he growled in my ear. “It’s gonna make you do something you’re gonna feel for the rest of your life.”

“Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.”

“Refuse to be a victim"

“We’re not teaching you how to shoot,” he said sternly. “We’re teaching you how to fight when death comes to your door.”

He believes Joe Biden’s election was a coup, one that is be up to the American people to rectify: “Serious times require serious Americans.”

Community sounds really great, but it is not an inclusive concept.