Tanzania Bonfire/Photos like this really bother me. Merged thread

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Don't understand why they took the time to stack them so nice just to burn them.... I hate to see anything go to waste!:banghead:
 
A police officer lights a bonfire of confiscated rifles at the Lake Tanganyika stadium in Kigoma, Tanzania. Some 2,000 guns were surrendered last year under a program to rid the country of illegal weapons.
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Congratulations, some 2000 people were just conformed into better targets for criminals...

:banghead:
 
Looks like they scooped up not a few percussion pieces in the haul. This is going to be a standard event staged by those charming and disarming international criminals in that cartel known as the United Nations when promoting "peace and prosperity in every land".

Big scam helping to secure their global plantation - and what a waste of probably many great guns.

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Burn'em High

Nothin' new...Neither the act nor the mindset that promotes the act. The British did it with all those privately-owned rifles, shotguns, pistols, and revolvers that they begged us for when they were facing the Wehrmacht
just across the channel...and they did it again with the FN-FALs that they captured from the Argentines after the Falklands conquest..and they'd do it again. Can't have those evil old weapons dirtying up the Queen's domain, y'know...

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Photos like this really bother me:

A member of the Tanzanian police starts a bonfire of confiscated weapons, at the Lake Tanganyika stadium in Kigoma, 1,000 kilometers west of Dar es Salaam on Jan. 23. Police ignited 2,000 illegal guns in an enormous bonfire as part of a weapons amnesty program in this East African nation, drawing thousands of cheering spectators. The guns were surrendered last year in western Tanzania under a program to rid the country of illegal arms.
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It's just wrong.
 
For every rifle that goes up in smoke, a citizen becomes a subject.

In the recent UN gun ban treaty vote, the US was the sole NO vote. Twenty four nations abstained.

This tyranny is sweeping the globe!
 
Some of those should have been destroyed, but there were a few external hammer guns that might have been worth something to collectors even for the parts. I spotted only one that looked like an AK and one Milspec type bolt action. There were some that looked like old muzzle loaders and a few that looked like just the stock.

I wonder how many were truly turned in and how many were stolen from citizens.

The reason that some of them should be destroyed is they are junk and dangerous, My friend in Kenya finally took a shotgun from a village that would rarely fire and many times it would fire in an unsafe manner.
 
Surrendered or confiscated? There's a difference in my mind. I wonder what the penalty was to NOT surrendering.

Oh well. Back to the machete.
 
I always wonder how many of the former owners are now dead due to the fact they are no longer able to defend themselves.:banghead:
 
How many of those were old government surplus guns and not really owned by private individuals?
 
The next time that some tyrannical leader/government decides to commit genocide or invade a neighboring country, I hope that it is not expected of us to ship them arms.**cough cough England**

Are we still involved with the UN? I wonder why.
 
better pic

that scenario was already posted at THR, when I first joined, maybe the reason I joined, but your pic is better - a better angle in some ways....closer. WTG!

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I don't see what the problem is outside of a fetishistic obsession with The Sacred Gun (laaaa!). These have either been voluntarily given to the police or confiscated. I suppose the cops could make a few bucks selling the few that were worth something, but they're under no obligation to do so. So the contraband gets destroyed. Big, hairy deal.
 
Thanks for merging these threads...

This bothers me on more than one level. First, I imagine the skill and craftsmanship that went into creating those rifles. I imagine how I would feel if I were the one that spent my days sanding and rubbing. I wonder how that man would feel if he could see into the future, and see the ends of his labors.

Second, this bothers me in the same way that a book burning bothers me. Those books might be the most evil, blasphemous (if you believe in such a thing) tomes ever penned, or they might just be trashy romance novels worth less than the paper they were printed on. It doesn't matter. They were created, and to create ALWAYS takes so much more effort than to destroy that it behooves us to try to preserve things created unless there should be some compelling reason not to.

Third, as has been mentioned, how many people could've used those firearms to protect themselves, and their families? How many are now defenseless against whatever future may come?
 
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:barf: I just got a good image in my head of some thug hanging off the side of a car/Robbing a store with a long barreled flintlock/percussion rifle. Riiiight.:banghead:

Some more images of the only people turning in weapons in the "buyback" programs in the US being old ladies selling their dead husbands war trophies.
Ugh.
 
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