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VICE Speaks with Syria Deeply's Lara Setrakian
Syria Deeply is a soon-to-be-launched web media project that's "exploring a new model of storytelling around a global crisis." Lara also contributes to ABC News, 'Foreign Policy,' and 'Monocle' magazine. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
The New Orleans Murder Wall Won't Stop Growing
While New Orleans is traditionally thought of as the city of jazz, Mardi Gras, and semi-functional alcoholics, it's also the city with the highest murder rate in the country. A local priest is trying to bring greater awareness to the problem by writing...
Gunrunning with the Free Syrian Army
Blindfolded, I fidgeted nervously in the back of an unmarked car, squished between a gunrunner and a young Free Syrian Army soldier. It had been at least an hour since we left the border town of Kilis, Turkey, and we were now off-roading across the...
Guns, God, and No Democrats at Knob Creek
Two weekends ago I was at Knob Creek Gun Range, a weaponry Mecca in West Point, Kentucky, that holds a biannual event that is sort of like a comic book convention where everyone is cosplaying as someone from 'Call of Duty.' A person could view, buy...
I Hung Out in a Warlord's Arms Factory
I went to the north of Pakistan last year to make a film. Before I left, my friend Sami got in touch and said that he'd been to Pakistan before too, and needed to tell me about the time he visited a warlord's factory there.
Firing Grenades at Somali Pirates Was the Most Fun I've Ever Had
One day we stopped to refuel and one of the guides was like, "OK, let's go shoot an underwater machine gun while we wait." So I was like, "Fuck yeah," obviously. So we did that for a bit, then I went and got my rocket launcher and shot that off the...
Shooting Proud, Legal Gun Owners (with a Camera)
Photographer Ben Philippi spent four years working on "God, Guns & Guts," a visually striking celebration of gun-toting patriots exercising their rights. His subjects are welcoming people who shoot magnums in their spare time instead of running model...
Should Cops Have Guns?
The theme of the news lately has been “Everyone Keeps Getting Shot.” There have been so many shootings in America that even the “Son of Sam” killer has denounced gun violence, and he shot a bunch of women because a dog told him to. Not surprisingly...
Control the People, Not the Guns
Once, when I was about 19, I had a gun pulled on me by a younger kid. He was probably 16 or so, and he put it right in my face. My reaction was, “Put that thing away.” He jumped in his car and took off. But I’m a 6'4" 250-pound martial arts expert.
Filibustin' with Willie D - Should You Take Your Guns to Town?
What can keep you safe from a closet psychopath who is armed to the teeth with over 6,000 rounds of ammunition, four guns, and a determination to kill indiscriminately? More guns or more gun control?