Posted on 02/20/2018 1:06:08 AM PST by Simon Green
MIDDLETON, New York -- An unlikely ally is meeting calls for more comprehensive gun control in America with action.
Scott Pappalardo has been a fervent advocate for gun owners' rights for more than 30 years.
The New York firearm owner even has a faded Second Amendment tattoo on his arm. What he doesn't have is an AR-15.
Pappalardo can be seen taking a circular saw to the weapon in a viral video filmed in the days after the deadly shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, in Florida.
After giving an impassioned speech on gun ownership, Pappalardo concedes he no longer believes people should own high-powered weapons.
"Is the right to own a weapon more important than someone's life?" Pappalardo asks in the powerful video.
Pappalardo says he ultimately decided to destroy his AR-15 because he was concerned what might happen if the gun ever wound up in the wrong hands.
In the honor of that dumb@$$3d statement, I re-activate a long-running tagline:
What would he do if he was upset about a rape?
The best way he could have protected others from his AR-15 would have been to use that ‘circular saw’ on his own, libtard neck...
Sorry Spanky. This story has already been done. We saw another idiot do this after the last shooting. A copycat gun demolition clown looking for his 15 minutes. He’ll probably destroy his car after some drunken illegal alien kills another American family. I don’t think so.
Who called the “media” to report this destruction? Little Scotty himself?
Virtue Signaling...
He got a lot of Bang
For the Buck!
erg.
I guess that showed the gun; one of your relatives was used in a mass shooting so there.
Like beating your kid because some kid the next town over acted out.
People on twitter have pointed out that he could replace the sawed up part in about thirty seconds
Notice he doesn't damage the receiver?
He ain't foolin' me.
I know of another fool that did the same thing to a very expensive Weatherby that had somehow gotten a bent barrel.
The saw never touched the furniture, but he made his stupid "statement".
Weatherby barrels are relatively easy to replace.
Ouch!! I see what you did there ;-)
Nothing new. Idiots were doing something similar back in the anti-gun hysteria of 1968.
First he cut off the barrel making it in violation of the 1934 Federal firearms laws.
Then he cut the receiver in half destroying the firearm. Anyone who had a MIG aluminum welding machine can repair it easily.
It is still like dangling beads in front of the news media.
Did you ever notice that when a cop shoots someone, nobody blames the gun?
He must next publicly destroy all of his movies and video games that have a gun shown in them. Now.
Attention whore....
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Yep
Did he destroy his Car, it’s a two ton Assault Weapon if it falls into the hands of a Crazy Democrat (but I repeat myself).
He was concerned what might happen if the gun ever wound up in the wrong hands.
Did he cut up his car or SUV in case a teenager gets a hold of it when he sells it??????.
Did I miss the story where a gun owner bought an AR after Lakeland?
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