Frag Out! Magazine
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Probably it would be strange that a preacher dedicates himself to his vocation if not a manner in which it is done and a specific personality which is his calling card. Samuel Childers, the American, converted gangster and drug dealer, for nearly 20 years (already as the preacher) has led projects which save children and has built orphanages in the places in the places, which without any embellishments can be called hell on earth. He is the only one publicly know missionary-preacher, using firearm for the physical security of the children who has become the victims of war. He practically never splits up with the firearm, especially in the bush, when he takes orphans from the very center of the turmoil of war declared by the Lord's Resistance Army of Joseph Kony or tribal "misunderstandings". During the meetings in Poland he spoke about an unprecedented scale of cruelties, that are witnessed, and what is worse, which active participants are so called child soldiers – forced to murder the civilians. They constitute a great part of the children in care in his orphanages: human beings stripped of their dignity, and sometimes also of humanity on whose way a fortune puts this white, mustached clergyman with a rifle. During his travel across Poland Sam held a lot of meetings throughout which he evangelized and motivated to actions people who would like to support him in providing his projects. It is worth emphasizing that he began his way in our country from a meeting with circles of the Polish gun owners at the shooting range in Góra Kalwaria, where he gave several interesting interviews to the Polish media, as well as to a team working on the "Parabellum" movie (it will be a movie dedicated to a broadly defined issue of the firearm in Poland). He proved himself to be a guy with a positive nature, who shots with pleasure in a sport manner side by side together with the event participants. He did not refuse neither to put some bursts from the PKM machine gun, nor .45ACP Kimber M1911, POF AR-15 or M1928Thompson SMG from the Second World War era – he accepted easily every piece of gun put under his nose, what was received very well by all present people. It is just a fate of a celebrity – there was a need to scarify oneself. This what was immediately noticeable was his, clearly obsessive attention to adhering to safety and security rules while handling the firearm. Sam treats gun security rules as restrictive as the Decalogue. And that is good because when you sometimes look what is going on at our shooting ranges, it gives the shivers up my back – during a meeting with Sam all felt secure and there were not any single situation which was connected, even a little bit with generating a thread. An unusuAl event took plAce on 17th FebruAry 2016 At the shooting rAnge in polAnd – A meeting with sAm childers, known From the "mAchine gun preAcher" movie – the title chArActer, preAcher nicknAmed "mAchine gun preAcher", who sAves children in suFFering From wArs And hunger AFricA. www.fragoutmag.com