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24th Annual Crime Gun Destruction symbolic nonsense?

JLee1977

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Nearly 5K Firearms To Be Destroyed In Annual Gun Melt « CBS Los Angeles

California has some screwed up economic practices! I saw at least six, Ruger 1022 rifles in the original video that the city could have resold back to "LAWFUL" gun owners. Those would have easily fetched around $175 each totaling $1050! Reselling just the Ruger 10/22's I saw would allowed the city to purchase 261, ten foot steel rebar rods @ $3.99 each (Lowes.com), to be used on infrastructure projects, way more than they are going to get from melting all of the firearms down. I guess its more socially acceptable to melt down the firearms, than melting down the criminals who choose to pick up the gun, and use it unlawfully.
 
They are probably sitting in someones closet.
 

Yes, burning people alive went out of style as a punishment a couple hundred years ago.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Yes, burning people alive went out of style as a punishment a couple hundred years ago.
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tell that to the jihadist scum over in the sand box
 
TurtleDude said:
nah those are bannerrhoid douche bags :mrgreen:
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But the complaint was that it was more "socially acceptable" to melt down firearms--- a tool-- than it was to burn criminals alive.
 
I'm not going to cry over melted 10/22's, they're common. But when they scrap historic firearms like a Sturmgewehr I get furious.
 

Lol, libs. This is more of a boon to the gun industry than anything else. :shrug:
 
countryboy said:
Lol, libs. This is more of a boon to the gun industry than anything else. :shrug:
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its like animal rights nut cases who throw paint on fur coats. then the court forces them to pay restitution which the victim of their idiotic attack use to buy NEW fur coats.
 
TurtleDude said:
its like animal rights nut cases who throw paint on fur coats. then the court forces them to pay restitution which the victim of their idiotic attack use to buy NEW fur coats.
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Quinn's first law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.
 
countryboy said:
Quinn's first law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.
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well the stated goal of gun control is crime control and you are right

however, the real goal of gun control is to harass and impede lawful gun ownership and gun owners and in that sense, it has worked out exactly as planned. Its also designed to pander to the slow witted and to actually help criminals and it has worked well in those areas as well
 
Spartacus FPV said:
I'm not going to cry over melted 10/22's, they're common. But when they scrap historic firearms like a Sturmgewehr I get furious.
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I know what your saying but the problem is if they will melt down a 10/22 common or not they will melt whatever they can get their gun grabbing hands on. Except the really good ones and they go in someones closet at home.
 
countryboy said:
Lol, libs. This is more of a boon to the gun industry than anything else. :shrug:
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If this...No wait it did come to this state and for the most part they got junk and handed out food vouchers,though some dealers set up and offered good money. Pissed the people in charge off.:lol:
 
zsu2357 said:
What did the tool do? And depending on the criminal what did he/she do?
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The tool was used in a crime of one sort or another. The criminal committed said crimes
 
Considering an average sale price of $300.00, they just destroyed 1.5 million dollars in a symbolic gesture that accomplished absolutely nothing. They probably couldnt have used it for anything more effective or constructive. Well played.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Safe to say it's blinding obvious a terrorist group is not running the city.
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depends on how you define terrorist. I think lots of californian politicians are best called Traitors given how they piss all over the constitution
 
To me stunts like this is confirmation that the city leaders, law makers, and law enforcement that put on these symbolic gestures, intentionally misrepresent the separation between a persons conscious decision to commit the crime, and the inanimate object that person chose to use to carry out that crime. I see it in gestures like this as well as when shootings are reported as "gun violence", removing all blame from the person, and focusing it on the firearm used. Its exactly like former Attorney general Eric Holder stated we have to brainwash young people that guns are not cool!
 
TurtleDude said:
depends on how you define terrorist. I think lots of californian politicians are best called Traitors given how they piss all over the constitution
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Correction: any rational person would be able to figure out that California is not "run by terrorists".

I don't see them blowing setting off car bombs or chopping people's heads off, do you?
 
Tigerace117 said:
Correction: any rational person would be able to figure out that California is not "run by terrorists".

I don't see them blowing setting off car bombs or chopping people's heads off, do you?
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I said they were traitors not terrorists. California is run by douchebags
 
TurtleDude said:
I said they were traitors not terrorists. California is run by douchebags
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Those would both be statements of opinion, not fact. There are plenty of real traitors running around the Pacific Northwest; the policians aren't among them.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Those would both be statements of opinion, not fact. There are plenty of real traitors running around the Pacific Northwest; the policians aren't among them.
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who would those be? seriously
 
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