Posted on 11/26/2017 8:13:13 PM PST by Antioch
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (WFLA) — A gun enthusiast from southern California says he is taking a step to help destroy gun violence.
One of Chad Vachter’s prized possessions was a thousand-dollar AR-15 assault rifle. After seeing the growing number of mass shootings in the country, Vachter said he was fed up and decided to take a hammer to his gun, destroying it.
“I can’t do it,” he said. “I can’t have something in my house that so easily could become a part of another situation like that, and I’m not going to be desensitized to it. I refuse to.”
Last month, 58 people were killed in a mass shooting at an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas. Earlier this month, a gunman opened fire inside a church and left 26 people dead in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Earlier this week, police say a gunman killed several people during a shooting rampage in several different locations in northern California, including an elementary school. Vachter says the incident hit close to home, and he had enough.
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"...one of his cheapos..."
next month he will set his car on fire to protest auto accident deaths.
He’s probably dating a really hot liberal babe. I hope it works.
And in typical zero-sum fashion, he turned $1000 into garbage. Sell the thing and make s big deal out of donating the money to a soup kitchen, fool.
Maybe he didn’t want to ‘register’ it.
CA has new registration requirements for ‘assault rifles’, starting real soon.
So he shows a pile of junk (or photo), when asked about it.
How many people did Chad’s AR-15 kill?
I wonder who reported Chad’s little stunt to the liberal “media”. Hmmmmm.
I wonder who reported Chad’s little stunt to the liberal “media”. Hmmmmm.
BINGO!!
> I hope it works.
It won't, at least not for long. Every time he does something like this, she'll just ratchet up the stakes a little more.
Good thing he did. He’s a bit unstable. That gun may have taken off on shooting spree...
“Gun enthusiast” my ass.
I can only laugh at stupidity such as this. I wonder how many lives he is going to claim he saved by being a hammerin hank.
Aren’t there higher chances that his car will be stolen or carjacked, and then kill someone in a reckless accident?
This is laying guilt trips on people who are about the least likely to be causing the problems. Kind of like the Westburros blaming social problems with homosexuals on US military veterans.
Idiot. Must be nice to be rich as well where trashing a thousand dollar gun is no big deal.
More money than brains.
If he was so worried about his gun becoming part of a mass shooting incident, he could have just secured it in a safe. If he has money to burn by trashing a $1000 gun, he can afford a decent safe.
Same here - wonder how often he shoots.
Attention seeker
In the picture showing the broken parts the lower receiver is missing. Legally that part alone is an AR15. He just smashed some gun parts, not the AR.
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