This is America:

A rare glimpse into a survivalist ‘militia’

American photographer Brian Blanco gained rare access to a group of survivalists in Florida. The North Florida Survival Group trains children and adults alike to handle weapons and survive in the wild. The group passionately supports the right of U.S. citizens to bear arms and its website states that it aims to teach “patriots to survive in order to protect and defend our Constitution against all enemy threats.” In December, Mr. Blanco spent a day photographing the group. It was six days before the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn. He wrote about the photo shoot in his blog.

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“When I first got into this, I thought I’d never have to use these skills in my lifetime, but we as citizens have a duty to defend the Constitution,” Foster said. “Now it looks like groups like ours are going to be called up to defend the Constitution even if it means using force.

“The government is trying to disarm us,” Jim said.

“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,” he said, referring to the 20 children and six adults who were shot at Sandy Hook.