A SELF-confessed gun enthusiast posted a video of himself on Facebook sawing his beloved AR-15 assault rifle into pieces in anger at the Florida high school massacre.
A SELF-confessed gun enthusiast posted a video of himself on Facebook sawing his beloved AR-15 assault rifle into pieces in anger at the Florida high school massacre.
Scott Pappalardo bought and registered the gun more than 30 years ago and is such a firm believer in the second amendment he even has it tattooed on his arm.
New Yorker Scott Pappalardo has owned guns for more than 30 years
Speaking in the video, which has now been viewed by millions, he says: “I’m not a hunter, I’ve never killed anything with it. Except a bunch of targets.”
The proud New Yorker has a tattoo of a rifle on his arm with the faded slogan "the right to keep and bear arms".
But after Nikolas Cruz , 19, massacred 17 people in a bloody rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with the same model of gun Pappalardo said enough is enough.
He said: “Is the right to own this weapon more important than someone’s life? Look at the pictures of those victims. Is that right more important?” .
The moment he uses a power saw to destroy his beloved AR-15 rifle
After cutting the gun up he says to the camera 'now there's one less'
“I’ve decided today, I’m going to make sure this weapon will never be able to take a life. The barrel of this gun will never be pointed at someone.
"I mean, think about it. Is the right to own this weapon more important than someone’s life?”
He then gets up, walks over to a power saw and cuts his rifle into pieces proclaiming: “Now, there’s one less.
“I hope and I pray that it doesn’t take the barrel of one of those guns pointed at your child’s head to change your mind.”
Scott later posted this photograph on Facebook and was praised by thousands
His thoughtful post explaining exactly why he did what he did
He then adds that although mental illness, violent video games, and bad parenting can contribute to gun crime it's ultimately "a gun like this one that takes away the lives".
He also delivered a riposte to the NRA and other gun ownership advocates who say that legal gun owners shouldn’t be penalised for the acts of criminals.
Scott said: “I’m going to give you a newsflash. Until the other day, Nikolas Cruz was a legal gun owner.
" Stephen Paddock in Las Vegas , killing 58 people, was a legal gun owner until that night.”
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A good guy with a gun (in pieces).
One of the few AR-15 owners with a conscience.
That's ok with all this publicity the gun grabbers are giving them they will be selling like hotcakes for the next couple of months.
You should hope so Dean since some of the arms companies are in bankruptcy (Remington and Colt) or deeply in debt.
Actually Remington said that business is down because fewer irrational conservatives are worried about our new Fuhrer grabbing their guns.
Yep, they loved to scare the numbskulls into thinking Obama was coming for their guns, thus they went out and bought more, but, no one ever came...
Who'd of thought ?
I don't believe that I said that they were shutting down. It's a chapter 11 bankruptcy (reorganization) but not a simple one...The are dumping $700 million in debt, (people are really going to get burned on that) and the current owner, Cerberus Mgt has been trying to sell them for 2 years with no takers.
Sales are down and their share price has dropped 14% this year.
It is ironic that sales plummeted catastrophically once their "pro-gun" candidate won.
I'll bet Remington is hoping that Trump will start a war to help their stocks rebound.
This is one of the best things about the Second Amendment, You have the Right to keep and bear Arms or not if you choose. This guy chose to own a weapon for thirty years then he decided to cut it up in pieces and if in the future he decides he wants to keep and bear a weapon again he can. I hope he turns the pieces into the police so they don't think he still should have the gun, they don't like it when registered guns just disappear it might cause problems for his Heirs especially in New York.
One thing we know for sure...he must be one of the few liberals that owns a gun. Pathetic and pointless progressive street theater.
Must be nice to just throw money away..
Far better than putting that gun into someone else's hands. He sounds like a very ethical man.....he must not be one of the folks who clutch their gun, god and bible.
People have a right to be foolish and this guy demonstrated that right
foolish?
Here's the verse immediately before the one you quoted:
"The law will go out from Zion,
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes for many peoples."
Seeing how that hasn't happened yet I'd say the guy was foolish AND premature.
Weren't liberals just mocking conservatives for destroying their Keurig coffee makers online?? What a fickle bunch.