Honolulu doens't need the money

[CitizenBBN]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/31/anti-gun-stupidity-honolulu-destroys-575g-worth-police-firearms/?intcmp=hpbt3

They want to keep their service weapons off the street, so instead of selling them, even out of the state (I'd gladly buy them all for the right price as would about half a million other FFL dealers), they're just destroying about half a million worth of guns.

The goal is to keep them off the streets.

In other news, they are going to buy up all the junk food in one convenience store next week to prevent obesity.

I love this kind of thinking, as if S&W and Glock and the rest won't make MORE guns. Just like Frito Lay will just bag up more Fritos if you go trash one shelf of them. it makes no difference to the total number of guns available, none. Feel good silliness.

[dan_bgblue]

It is amazing, and sad at the same time, that so many people that are supposed to be in positions of leadership have no grasp of reality on so many issues. It is also alarming and sad that these same people keep getting reelected to public office so they can do something stupid for years to come.

Let's make it illegal to sell gasoline to the pubic, and everyone will have to buy electric cars, take public transportation, ride a bicycle, paddle a boat, or walk were they need to go.

[CitizenBBN]

In our new country we're going to have a law that you have to be able to pass a basic micro economics course before you can vote or hold public office.

this is such a small number of guns in the big picture that it does nothing to keep them off the streets of course, but even if one were to run through the marginal impacts they are all the opposite of what would be best for the people of that city. Mostly the city is just out half a million dollars.

[suncat05]

Where could I begin with this latest round of ignorance..........

[suncat05]

This rates right up there in the ignorance category with the destruction of surplus M1 Garands, M-1 carbines, and. 45 caliber handguns being destroyed instead of being sold through the Civilian Marksmanship Program.

But as our leftist/socialist/progressiveness friends are so fond of doing, let's just destroy the old history and re-write it to our liking. And while there isn't the history associated with Honolulu's handguns like there is with the guns of the CMP, it is still destruction of public property and the history associated with these guns that makes this a real tragedy for our country.

[Doc]

This sounds remarkably like the "cash for clunkers" debacle, where the government takes assets and destroys them to further their liberal agenda. They take government tax dollars, purchase an asset then intentionally render it worthless. It takes wasteful spending to a new level. Its beyond wasteful spending. Its literally burning money. The government has taken money in the form of taxes, spent that money to purchase something, then intentionally rendered it worthless. Good God, are these people dumb? If i did that as a business owner, I'd be fired and likely put in jail.