Only someone who was sick could take pleasure in melting down guns or burning books. A gun is a beautiful thing, created by talented craftsmen and engineers, it is the perfect synergy of form and function. Its purpose is to serve its master: to defend when called upon, to provide food for the table when needed. Just as with book burning meltdown/buy-back programs are a ‘feel good’ activity with no grounds in reality.

Cops who make claims like “If we get one gun that’s one less gun possibly used in a crime” do their constituents a disservice and have no business beings cops. They know damn well that the statistics show that it is more likely that the gun they just melted down would have been used to defend an innocent life than take one. Criminals are going to acquire their tools of trade despite the anti-gun efforts to get all the guns ‘off the streets’.

Memphis Tennessee Sgt. Vince Higgins is one of these cops. He happily accepts guns from citizens so that they can be melted down to protect them from criminals. Little old ladies who didn’t like their husband’s gun collection are now turning them in to be melted, instead of passing down a valuable family heirloom or selling it to a collector. They don’t realize that by having that gun colleciton their husband was doing his part to deterr crime and protect his family.

Hat tip to Random Nuclear Strikes