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Seeing Crime Guns Destroyed Gives Solace to Victims' Families
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| January 4, 2006
| PAM BELLUCK
Posted on 01/03/2006 11:03:06 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem
that's a long barreled Blackhawk...
typical libs....what if symbolism over substance
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:17:50 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(If they don't own at least one pick-up, then they need to be watched closely)
To: neverdem; Joe Brower
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:19:27 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: appeal2
I am quite certain that seeing the sob's executed would give more solace and perhaps even some closure. Well yeah, for the relatives, but what about the press?
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:28:59 AM PST
by
papertyger
(We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.)
To: neverdem
Malleable idiots succumbing to government flackery.
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:30:47 AM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: ozzymandus
Wow, is that stupid. After reading this stupid article, nine of the ten voices in my head are telling me to clean my guns.
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:32:25 AM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: neverdem
She said she had been unable to see punishment imposed on her son's killer, Zachary Fenderson, who had found his ex-girlfriend with Mr. St. Hilaire one night, because Mr. Fenderson immediately shot and killed himself.
----Will that gun be "killed" too? I mean, I am sorry her son was killed ( I am not heartless) because I lost a husband and a baby boy to a drunk driver, but seeing the car destoyed that did hit and killed them, would NOT have done a thing but send the wrong message. THE driver/shooter killed them/her son. Not the objects that were used to do it. I have a gun and 2 cars, and I am responsible with all of them.
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:34:25 AM PST
by
WasDougsLamb
(I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man)
To: Travis McGee
Oh brother!Oh brother! Indeed, maybe you can work this aspect of liberal craziness into a chapter. Happy New Year!
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:36:35 AM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: Hank Rearden
After reading this stupid article, nine of the ten voices in my head are telling me to clean my guns. I'll bet the tenth one is saying "January tenth, January tenth... "
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:38:53 AM PST
by
papertyger
(We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Great shot. Pun intended. I laughed so much that my wife thought I was nuts.
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:39:19 AM PST
by
Cobra64
To: WasDougsLamb
First of all, I'm terribly sorry for your loss.
Secondly, you're exactly right. This kind of thing makes about as much sense as destroying a piece of industrial equipment that someone was injured or killed by.
I wonder if at some point they'll be having a day for people to destroy knives used in stabbings, or baseball bats used in clubbings.
Oh well, I guess it doesn't matter if this sort of thing actually accomplishes anything. As long as it makes people feel good, that's all that matters.
L
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:43:10 AM PST
by
Lurker
(You don't let a pack of wolves into the house just because they're related to the family dog.)
To: appeal2
I think it would be fitting if the perp were executed with that same gun he used to kill his victim.
Kharma.
It's a good circular thing:)
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:44:43 AM PST
by
jaguaretype
(Sometimes war IS the answer)
To: wardaddy
I have two Rugers. One is a 7-1/2" Blackhawk, the other is a 5-1/2" Bisley Vaquero. Both are .357's No somma beech is going to take them away from me. I won't discuss the serious stuff.
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:47:06 AM PST
by
Cobra64
To: neverdem
Seeing Crime Guns Destroyed Gives Solace to Victims' Families It's hard to imagine such an irrational story being given any coverage even 20 years ago except to wonder at its lunacy, but now such swill makes it to a "paper of record" as straight news.
I assume that when the neighbors start building airplanes from coconuts and straw that the New York Times will be johnny-on-the-spot to report on their efficacy at producing cargo.
To: neverdem
Aren't the police breaking the law in that photograph by not having a trigger lock on the firearm? Notice how it was being stored in a plain cardboard box, where a child could have grabbed it?
Well, how's about it New York Times?
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posted on
01/04/2006 2:10:45 AM PST
by
dbehsman
(NRA Life member and loving every minute of it!)
To: neverdem
Maybe they should watch the perpetrator get sawn up instead.
Blame the gun, blame the gun, blame the gun.
In addition, if the gun was stolen, the poor slob who owned it will never get it back. What horsesh!t.
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posted on
01/04/2006 2:13:53 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: neverdem
It would be much better to watch the killer sawn into pieces. One could have a chunk of the carcase, perhaps the hand or trigger finger, gold plated and set it on the mantle.
To: neverdem
Seeing Crime Guns Destroyed Gives Solace to Victims' Families So does beating an old pillow with a tennis racket while hopping up and down and shouting at the top of your lungs, but it doesn't bring the victim back and it doesn't neutralize the perp.
So does going to the range and putting several pounds of lead down range into upper body silhouette targets, but it doesn't bring the victim back and it doesn't neutralize the perp.
So does being prepared in the first place so it's the perp, not your loved one, who leaves the scene in a body bag.
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posted on
01/04/2006 2:21:29 AM PST
by
HKMk23
(Why do you expect better treatment from this lousy world than Jesus got; are you holier? - Ravenhill)
To: neverdem
The mental weakness of these confused people is amazing and disturbing. I will never understand how destroying a tool is supposed to make the world safer.
I've seen children get scared of a toy that hurts them, they will avoid that toy no matter what. The way these people act reminds me of that same childish response. Destroy it so it can't hurt me again.
I couldn't care less what the final disposition of these guns is. It doesn't change a single thing. No life is going to be returned by destroying it nor will leaving it intact and selling it bring the dead back, but to act like they are putting down a rabid dog who has savaged a neighborhood is beyond reason, it's madness.
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posted on
01/04/2006 2:46:16 AM PST
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Whats with the Marquis of Queensbury Rules bullsh*t, we fight for our very survival! Fight Dirty!)
To: neverdem
Guns that are legal and in good condition were sold off. Any others were destroyed in a number of ways. Here in MN, for example, the Minneapolis PD frequently tosses them in a smelter. Further north in Duluth guns the police want to destroy are taken several hundred yards out onto Lake Superior and dumped overboard.
Works well either way.
To: KingofZion
Why don't liberals support gun vouchers, or maybe gun stamps? Seems like the type of redistribution scheme that they love if it involves food, housing, cash :)Here in Virginia you have to buy one handgun a month. It's the law
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posted on
01/04/2006 3:24:51 AM PST
by
P8riot
(When they come for your guns, give them the bullets first.)
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