Posted on 03/28/2005 8:49:51 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
Confiscated Guns Melted
Mar 24, 2005 6:15 pm US/Eastern
COATSVILLE, PA (KYW) It was a murderous meltdown Thursday as more than 3,000 guns dissolved at more than 3,000 degrees in a steel plant furnace.
The move comes as CBS 3’s Walt Hunter reports officials turn up the heat in hopes of getting deadly weapons off Philadelphia’s streets.
Every kind of caliber, every type of crime, and many still marked with the blood of their victims.
The roar of the weapons brought violence and death to city streets but now, following the roar of a steel plant furnace, they are about to disappear.
From their storage place at the police evidence room, the weapons were moved in a truck caravan under the close watch of swat teams to the ISG Steel Plant in Coatesville
With furnaces heated to more than 3,000 degrees, once the guns were dumped into the flames, they were gone for good.
For officers who often risked their lives seizing the weapons and for workers feeding the fires, it was a satisfying day.
Hunter says that now the molten lava of the melted guns will quickly be transformed into steel plates to protect troops in Iraq.
So, did the evil spirits flee the flames and possess the swat teams?
Philosophers have understood that the the symbol is not the thing for a couple of thousand years, but waterheads like this and like those school administrators who suspend kids for drawings of guns or for a tiny symbolic kirpan still think this way.
"The roar of the weapons brought violence and death to city streets..."
by THEMSELVES? their ROAR? Sounds like EMERALD CITY!
WTF?????
Even in such gun destroying places like the UK and Australia the felons don't seem to have any problem getting guns. You would think that it's the perps not the guns that are the problem. This kind of reminds me of melting wheel chairs to cure polio.
Lunch break humor.
substitute "books" for guns.
"Partly propaganda, however these people actually believe that objects like firearms are evil. Animism is the most primitive and anti-rational of beliefs and the sign of low resolution minds."
It's both sad and scary to think that people like this are actually policy wonks and big decision makers, isn't it?
There was video. Among the weapons were a Garand and a Springfield.
Enough to make a grown man cry.
I wonder if they unloaded them first?
...or witches
"There was video. Among the weapons were a Garand and a Springfield.
Enough to make a grown man cry."
Dang, two valuable pieces of history down the memory hole. At the very least they could've spared and resold the antique rifles and destroyed the rest that are replaceable on the market.
What a shame! A lot of these lonely unloved guns could have been happily adopted into families like mine. Why do they destroy the guns instead of trying to place them with people who have lots of love in their hearts for more guns? Our family would have been glad to take several guns and give them the home they long for. They would have been well-cared for and would have received frequent exercise and lots of playtime at the local range.
What a blithering idiot.
Flunked descriptive writing, earth sciences, and beginning logic. A trifecta!
This kind of reminds me of melting wheel chairs to cure polio.
Please ping me when you see the headline " Liberal scum melted"
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