Please Don't Shoot.

There's something very strange and unsettling seeing your hood get militarized. After Katrina, NOLA was flooded by machine gun-toting Army, National Guard, and Blackwater personnel. Despite the media saturation in the weeks and months surrounding the storm, I just can't get used to seeing gangs of these nuts strolling around. If you zoom to the large image, you'll see that at least one of these guys' rifles is unloaded. Perhaps they felt that the sheer power of their camo outfits would serve as deterrent enough.

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