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-defense 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.
The pics below are taken from the latter. As said by Alan Cooperman
from The Washington Post: “Each picture in Armed America could be a
pro-gun advertisement - or an anti-gun poster. That’s what makes the
book so riveting.”
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24 Comments
guzel
nickler
22. Feb, 2009
wow these are cool pictures, but weapons are not good
things for everyone, they are all of killing machines, really sad..
Hank
26. Feb, 2009
Guns are used in recreation, sport, yes war but gun rights were given to us by the founding
fathers to protect ourself in the event our government became to oppressive, and
before you say we can vote, express our disdain for how the government instead of
using guns to get things done. Well sometimes we just need a big stick handy when
those things dont work anymore and our necks are being held to the ground by the
foot of tryany
potatope
26. Feb, 2009
I laughed when I saw the guy holding the Bible. So much for
‘Thou shalt not kill’
James King Auckland NZ
26. Feb, 2009
Damn those gats would be great for my raping activities!
ReMaster
26. Feb, 2009
Everyone pussy-footed European and Communist/Socialist from
the backwater countries with more CCTV and less rights than a freakin’ gulag is going to
be screaming their bloody liberal heads off declaring: ‘oh my GOD! Americans are
just crazy with all these guns! Why would you EVER need guns?’ All I have to say
is this: ‘If you act like sheep in front of your government, dont be surprised when
they lead you to slaughter.’
patrick
26. Feb, 2009
i have twelve weapons ranging from an ak47 to a 25. automatic.
i have taught my son how to handle them respectfully. everyone in my household can
safely use a weapon. so dont try to break into my house.
smurf
26. Feb, 2009
wow, what a collection of fat loser dudes. i wonder if there’s
a connection between their inability to score good-looking girls (or any girls it
seems in most of these examples) and their need to have something powerful in their
lives…
does anyone feel happy knowing THESE dudes are armed?
Moi
26. Feb, 2009
Man, some of those collections must have cost *fortunes*.
Ugly American
27. Feb, 2009
Where do you think your rights, freedoms & even your standard
of living as non-serfs came from?
Men & women braver & more realistic than people today
stood up and took them by force from the kings, bankers and other tyrants who would
make slaves of us all.
I just can’t understand how many ‘adults’ are willing to pawn
everything their ancestors earned though blood, sweat & tears for dirty scraps
of paper & empty promises.
Al
27. Feb, 2009
At least half of these people look like someone who really
shouldn’t own a gun, or indeed anything sharp.
Strange that the countries with the most murders, manslaughter
and violent crime all allow the ownership of guns, isn’t it?
[email protected]
27. Feb, 2009
“Everyone pussy-footed European and Communist/Socialist from
the backwater countries with more CCTV and less rights than a freakin’ gulag is
going to be screaming their bloody liberal heads off declaring: ‘oh my GOD! Americans
are just crazy with all these guns! Why would you EVER need guns?’ All I have to
say is this: ‘If you act like sheep in front of your government, dont be surprised
when they lead you to slaughter.”
this is somewhat correct, but america is certainly more backwater
than many european countries and we have just as many rights being taken away on
a daily basis.
no
27. Feb, 2009
“i have twelve weapons ranging from an ak47 to a 25. automatic.
i have taught my son how to handle them respectfully. everyone in my household can
safely use a weapon. so dont try to break into my house.”
actually, if you own guns for protection, that is the wrong
stance. if you own a gun, you are more likely to be killed accidentally and not
much less likely to be killed by an intruder. the point of gun ownership is defense against corrupt governments,
although revolutions are even more difficult to stage today, especially as people
in america who own guns are the first to defend the government actions that take
away many of their rights as long as their right own guns is not infringed.
no
27. Feb, 2009
“Well sometimes we just need a big stick handy when those
things dont work anymore and our necks are being held to the ground by the foot
of tryany”
although blunt, this is correct. corporate interests dictate
much of the US
and other governments today. the only reasonable way to overturn this appears to
be violence. the only ones who would actually resort to violence however would only
see a revolution attempt as crass and rather agree with our current government policies.
no
27. Feb, 2009
“Strange that the countries with the most murders, manslaughter
and violent crime all allow the ownership of guns, isn’t it?”
correlation does not equate to causation, even if apparent.
this has been well studied and the ownership of guns really has little to do with
the reasons for violence.
yes
27. Feb, 2009
great…more hicks with guns…
Saftey First
27. Feb, 2009
The US
founding fathers gave us gun rights so we could have an army, because the country
could not afford an army back then. Not so we could “overthrow” the government,
in case it became “corrupt”. Now guns are unnecessary and dangerous. Civil societies have all but outlawed them, and
they have much lower murder and suicide rates. Guns should be illegal. They are
fun toys, ha ha, until someone gets shot. Drunks, kids, accidents… I’d love to follow
the families in those pictures and see which one has the first shooting. Sad.
Saftey First
27. Feb, 2009
“correlation does not equate to causation, even if apparent.
this has been well studied and the ownership of guns really has little to do with
the reasons for violence.”
If they didn’t have the guns, no one would get shot. Instead
there are more guns than people. Outlaw them. Period. Watch the murder rate drop.
steve
27. Feb, 2009
if guns were outlawed, there would just be more deaths by
stabbing… like in the UK.
Dr. No
27. Feb, 2009
omg, the bible does say thou shall not kill but it jesus also
said you could sell your belongings for a sword (nowadays, that’s an AR-15).
To those who say THESE guys shouldn’t own guns, you are judging based on what you
see, not what you know about THESE people.
It was the weapon that got us this Country. If
you think without guns there would be no crime, your mistaken. It is the gun that
lays down the law. If everyone could CARRY a gun everyone would be more respectful.
These guys will not give up when pushed to the pit, you shouldn’t either.
Get a gun.
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27. Feb, 2009
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Jimmy Elsewhere
27. Feb, 2009
“particularly since most of these guns are not easily reconcilable
with the notion of self-defense and their true place should be somewhere in the
Armed Forces”
Isn’t the idea that with assualt rifles individuals could
protect themselves and their families against the armed forces?
Saftey First
28. Feb, 2009
There may be more stabbings in the UK than in the US,
but the murder rate is still much higher in the US than any other Western nation. We
have nearly 6 murders per 100K and the UK is just 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate
The closest Western nation is Spain,
at a little over 3/100K.
If everyone in the US had a gun, there would be a lot more
shootings, especially drunken ones. Can you image - every bar fight would turn into
a shooting!?!
howndawg
04. Mar, 2009
Hahaha…everyone is so busy yelling at each other and reinforcing
their own stereotypes, that no one actually bothered to read the text:
“All the photo were later compiled in the book with its German edition being published
this year. The pics below are taken from the latter.”
The “latter” would mean the German version. These are German
gun owners, not American!
I’m sorry, you were saying something no@no? Hahaha
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