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Our View: Turning guns into garden tools(Barf bucket pleez!)
santafenewmexican.com ^ | 8/7/2016 | unknown

Posted on 08/08/2016 10:17:17 AM PDT by rktman

Much divides the country when it comes to the issue of gun violence. That’s why it is so important to find common ground so that, together, all Americans can work to reduce the damage that guns cause in our society.

A new initiative starting this week in New Mexico has the potential to bring people together toward a common goal — making people safer without fighting over whether assault weapons should be banned or the meaning of the Second Amendment.

Called Guns to Gardens, the movement organized by New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence simply helps people dispose of unwanted weapons. Instead of leaving a gun lying around the house, a person can take it to Guns to Gardens, which is raising money to buy back the weapons. Those unwanted guns will be melted and turned into spades and shovels to be used in community gardens. There will be public arts projects. It’s a multi-year, statewide effort, an attempt to secure weapons so that they can no longer be used to harm.

This is especially important in safeguarding children. In New Mexico, children die by firearms at a rate almost 60 percent higher than the national average. A gun that is no longer functional can’t be used to commit suicide or to play a game of Russian roulette or to shoot a friend accidentally.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.santafenewmexican.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; dumbasses; gunstogardens; liberalagenda; rkba
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To: rktman

Or you could take it to your local gun store and receive a lot more money for it.


21 posted on 08/08/2016 10:26:16 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: mfish13

A Stallard or a High Point?


22 posted on 08/08/2016 10:26:27 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Yo-Yo
Sounds like Cash for Clunkers.
23 posted on 08/08/2016 10:26:46 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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To: max americana

is this the part of beating plows into swords?


24 posted on 08/08/2016 10:26:48 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: rktman

Wow, this a great idea!! Because nobody has ever used a shovel to kill someone...


25 posted on 08/08/2016 10:27:27 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: rktman

LOL! Sorry.


26 posted on 08/08/2016 10:27:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: rktman

27 posted on 08/08/2016 10:27:42 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

So, lyin’ val and lyin’ joe rear their ugly heads once again. Maybe that’s why one of my “acquaintances” is headed to Santa Fe this week.


28 posted on 08/08/2016 10:27:59 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Author: unknown lefty lib.


29 posted on 08/08/2016 10:28:25 AM PDT by exnavy (John 3:16)
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To: rktman

"Guns Into Fish Housing"

That is what happened in my unfortunate situation due to a tragic, tragic boating incident.
It resulted in my entire firearms collection spilling into Lake Michigan.
Fish are undoubtedly breeding / residing in the small artificial reef that was ostensibly created.

30 posted on 08/08/2016 10:28:37 AM PDT by Blue Jays
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To: Yo-Yo

There is a build thread out there on how to turn a shovel into an AK lower.


31 posted on 08/08/2016 10:30:15 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: rktman

“A gun that is no longer functional can’t be used to commit suicide”

Maybe if you aren’t trying very hard...


32 posted on 08/08/2016 10:32:04 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: rktman

Rudyard Kipling knew their kind, even a century ago:

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”


33 posted on 08/08/2016 10:32:19 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Blue Jays

you too...

my guns met with a similar fate on a expedition up the atlantic coast... no reef has formed yet, but there are reports of some carp seen seizing the day with a glock 17...


34 posted on 08/08/2016 10:32:34 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: rktman

ads fhst going to sboot thr weeds?


35 posted on 08/08/2016 10:32:34 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said? was let used as the NM reporter car)
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To: rktman
Hickok45 turning a gun into a garden tool
36 posted on 08/08/2016 10:33:02 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: Yo-Yo

A DOLLAR a DAY!?!

Damn! I want to know where you are buying ammo so cheap!


37 posted on 08/08/2016 10:33:13 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: rktman

I thought maybe it had something to do with shooting vegetables in your garden. Radishes deserve to be shot!


38 posted on 08/08/2016 10:33:20 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: longtermmemmory

Yep.

Joel 3:10

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, “I am strong!”


39 posted on 08/08/2016 10:33:51 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: rktman
There will be public arts projects

Seems there's no problem that public arts projects can't solve. And street puppets - can't forget the street puppets...
40 posted on 08/08/2016 10:33:52 AM PDT by chrisser
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