"For only a dollar a day, you can provide a loving home to an unwanted gun."
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 ...
Joel 3:10, not Isaiah 2:4 (the latter’s context is after the Second Coming).
My view: Turning free men into defenseless victims.
What is an “Unwanted” gun??
I have no problem with this at all. It’s voluntary and does not use taxpayer funds.
I suspect that most of the founders of “New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence” are also already members of other left wing organizations.
Sadly, the person responsible for this tripe votes. At least he/she most likely has not reproduced . . .
During the Cultural Revolution in China, the Government used Guns to force the Educated Populace into the Rice Fields.
This must be what they are talking about.
ROTFL! The New Mexican Artsy-Fartsy crowd have elevators that don’t go all the way to the top. Maybe they should turn their Volvos, BMWs and Audis into rental apartments with little flower gardens around them where they can grow their “medicinal” marijuana.
You know...like being “punished” with a baby.
"For only a dollar a day, you can provide a loving home to an unwanted gun."
hmmmm....
No warrant out for it’s capture, arrest and conviction? A wanted gun would have a BOLO alert and K-9’s scouring the country side in order to apprehend. Just a guess.
Well, this could work just fine. I'll take them. If you need scrap steel in return, we could arrange that.
I could also kill with a shovel...
“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.”
Wait a dang minute there partner. We got us a Volvo and there ain’t a lib fiber in the house. LOL! 2007 S80-V8 AWD. It hauls butt. :-)
AR-15’s are garden tools right? You use them to shoot wild animals poaching at your garden.
Broken beyond repair.
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