A VICE correspondent travels to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where a school district has adopted a controversial new security method involving firearms training for staff, filming the drills and interviewing the administrators and teachers behind the program. The second half of the episode moves to Iraq, returning to former battlegrounds after the fighting has ended to show what life looks like once the bloodshed stops: abandoned checkpoints, families rebuilding in bombed-out neighborhoods, and soldiers and civilians describing what the war left behind. The two segments sit side by side without much narrative connective tissue, but each is built from on-the-ground footage and direct interviews rather than commentary from a studio. VICE's house style carries through, handheld camerawork, blunt questions put directly to subjects, and a refusal to soften the material. The result is less a single argument than two dispatches united by a theme, how societies arm themselves against violence, and what remains once large-scale violence has already happened.