Posted on 11/25/2016 3:42:26 AM PST by marktwain
On November 16, 2016, the government of Kenya destroyed 5,250 guns. The method used was fire. It isn’t that guns are not valued in Kenya. Villages in Kenya are being raided for slaves by al Shabaab, an African affiliate of ISIS. They have sworn allegiance to the new Caliphate in the middle east. Kenya has allied with other govenments to fight them. Al Shabaab loudly proclaims its Islamic right to raid, kill, and enslave unbelievers.
But the Kenya government does not trust the villagers with any guns, even single shot muzzle-loaders, let along AK47 rifles. From africanews.com:
Somalia’s insurgent group al Shabaab, which seeks to overthrow the country’s Western-backed government and impose a strict version of sharia – Islamic law, has carried out regular assaults in neighboring Kenya in recent years as retaliation for Kenya contributing troops to an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia.Kenya is not a rich nation. There is tremendous poverty in the rural villages. It is hard to believe that the rifles, shotguns and a few pistols could not have brought at least $100 each. That would have been a half a million dollars.Kenya last burnt a similar collection of illegal weapons in 2003, 2005 and 2010.
Africa has been prone to small arms proliferation which has in turn resulted in political and social unrests in most parts of the continent. Reinforcing existing small arms treaties at the national, subregional and the continental levels are seen as important to maintain stability and peace in Africa.
The African Union says there is the need for a concerted effort to combat trade in illicit small arms and light weapons which continue to cause untold suffering and pain, threatening the peace and security of the region.
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The same foolish thinking allows them to burn millions of dollars of ivory.
It is not like thousands of new firearms are made every day.
Nothing like stupid government programs to keep ones prices high and in business.
Those stacks are staged. Guns could not be stacked like that, they are wired to wooden frames to male them look huge. How fake...
And to make them burn better.
Yes, the inside of the stacks are hollow. They also doused them with an accelerant to get them burning.
At least a half million dollars wasted.
All to make political propaganda.
It is not that much, when you consider what is spent on propaganda by the NYTs, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, etc.
Aussies did the same thing years ago after Tasmania incident. Only they used bulldozers...
First ,
They stack the guns,
Then ,
They stack the Corpses.
They are already stacking the corpses. But you are correct.
Keeping weapons from the hands of the ruled has been a priority for tyrants everywhere.
“Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which relies on foreign arms brought to yield obedience to a single citizen. Rome and Sparta remained for ages armed and free. The Swiss are at once the best armed and the freest people in the world.”
Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Oh, I get it...Kenyan Gun Destruction. More of that great modern edjumuhkashun from government indoctrination factories.
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There really isn’t any dollar value that can be placed on those soon to be destroyed firearms, when they’re viewed as a means to protect the lives of villagers from the rape, murder, and enslavement of al shabaab.
CLASSIC...A monkey shoots AK-47 machine gun in a group of soldiers.
One of the most chillingly factual posts I’ve ever read on FR.
This is exactly what the Kenyan in the White House wanted us to do so we could not protect ourselves. Thanks to Mr. Trump...it ain’t gonna happen.
According to the book THE WASHING OF THE SPEARS gun control in Africa began in South Africa in the 1880s when natives often worked for a full year just to get a “Birmingham gas pipe” musket.
The British government became so worried they demanded the guns be turned in for “registration”. When turned in those guns were instead confiscated. When the natives DEMANDED the return of the guns, they were returned in an inoperable condition.
***Only they used bulldozers...***
I remember Handgun Control Inc, when they finally went anti-rifle, taking lots of “A-s-s-s-ault R-r-ifles” laying them on the pavement and running over them with a heavy road construction asphalt roller.
The rifles turned out to be tougher than expected and they had to keep rolling back and forth many times to destroy them.
The photo reminded me of the Holocaust.
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