[neverdem]

Herb Swanson for The New York Times
Kelly DeCambra, left, her daughter Danielle Barden, in white shirt, and son John Barden with the gun that was used to kill another son.

Herb Swanson for The New York Times
The gun used to kill Ms. DeCambra's son is cut up at a police garage.

[martin_fierro]

They should give those guilty guns a lethal injection.

Anything more would be inhumane.

[jamesm51]

Before that, guns were often sold or auctioned by police departments to raise money for other equipment.

I don't think they sell guns with the serial numbers filed off...

[ozzymandus]

Wow, is that stupid.

[Darkwolf377]

Silly. Equally silly are "victim impact statements" in what are supposed to be the places where we objectively and without emotion decide court cases.

[ncountylee]

Seeing the perp put down would work better plus these guns could still save lives.

[Myrddin]

Do they gather to watch killer cars crushed? Are baseball bats burned? What a stupid thing to do. Attacking an inanimate object.

[Cobra64]

Whoever dreamed up this plan is a jerk. I'm fed up with this touchy-feely-gootchie-koo-I love you babe, crap. If one of my kids were killed, I'd find the bastard and empty a magazine.

Now on the other side, if my daughter were raped, I'd like to see the rapist, aka, Clinton gelded; then I'd empty the magazine.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

END CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR GUNS!!

GUNS CAN BE REHABILITATED!!

This gun should be given life without parole. Anything more is dreadfully uncivilized. Few people know this, but I've heard of guns that wrote childrens' books while they were awaiting rehabilitation. As a society, we need to build gun prisons where those guns that have been engaged in henious crimes can spend the rest of their years repenting for the damage they have done.

[IYellAtMyTV]

Whew, this one really needed a 'Barf Alert'. On second thought, it was from the NYSlimes. Nevermind.

[Jaysun]

This is sick.

[de Buillion]

This encouragement by the police departments, to crime victim relatives, that they should place blame on an inanimate chunk of metal (or plastic) for a violent criminal act committed by a live person, seems a bit perverted and sick to me. Should we now have ceremonies to watch cars crushed, if they were involved in DWI deaths?

[papertyger]

... in a state like Maine, which in the last decade averaged about 20 homicides a year, destroying such weapons takes only a few guns out of circulation.

But it's rich in symbolism!

And really. Isn't that the most important thing? < /derision >

[gaijin]

People are missing the real questions here:

Why are the authorities cutting up RUGERS in disproportionate numbers?

Are Rugers made in a unenriched urban environments?

If we subsidized the working function of their lathes, would guns made at Ruger, Inc. prove less apt to cause crimes than if they were fabricated with other means?

Do people HATE Rugers? Why is there so much intolerance of Ruger handguns?

Let's say the federal gov't subsidized midnight cowboy action shooting games --mighn't we see a much higher level of Ruger handguns go on to become Gatling guns and Vulcan canons?

I cannot believe you people haven't given this more thought...

[wardaddy]

that's a long barreled Blackhawk...

typical libs....what if symbolism over substance

[Travis McGee]

Oh brother!

[Hank Rearden]

Malleable idiots succumbing to government flackery.

[WasDougsLamb]

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.

[snowsislander]

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.

[dbehsman]

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?

[Smokin' Joe]

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.