More than 22,000 guns collected by Belgian authorities were melted down into about 60 tons of steel.
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An armed society is a polite society
Lol what.
@Leutrell Bodden EVERYWHERE that armed retaliation, is a guaranteed response to violence. Like Alberta to begin with.
@Barry Wakeford I’m an Albertan and live in Edmonton and your full of it.
@Barry Wakeford Albertans can be very violent and rude, so don’t know where exactly you’re looking at.
@Sinister Minister You said yourself you’re from Edmonton. I don’t expect YOU to understand.
“and for our next trick, we’re going to melt your human rights too”
No, if anything, the destruction of these guns were in benefit to human freedoms since these were freely given away by private citizens.
@UCOvjCvAHsSiAzdZ_Zi_89ig I’m not American but that was quite racist and xenophobic of you to say
Guns are not human rights
@Charlie Diep of course they are silly
We did it Patrick, we fixed all crime and violence.
Now all the criminals won’t break the law lol.
All the weapons presented here were freely given away by citizens or from police armories.
All those guns will only make half of “1” beam for a skyscraper
Now that’s a really expensive beam.
I think your math is off, a 120 ton beam? Doubtful.
@Tidbit have you heard of sarcasm!? Or are you just some moron with wifi & a PC
gun manufacturers: Thanks!
Sad.
Why? Guns are for cowards.
Guns are for fun here in Canada.
And then used the steel to make 22,000 new guns
I’ll keep mine thank you
Same
Cowards need guns.
Gun owners always are compensating for something…
@Frank Muller Yup, they’re always all talk.
@John Stone You, your friend Frank, are idiots.
Nice!
In Germany, firearm registration helped lead to the holocaust.
Each year we solemnly remember in sorrow the survivors and those
lost in the holocaust, but the part gun registration and gun
confiscation played in that horror is seldom mentioned.
That’s a pretty dumb idea
This video is ominous.
Seldom mentioned because it’s a presumptuous idea?
@Charlie Diep
You better check your history
(SO ” AWESOME “) 😄😄😄😄
Fun fact. That’s 5.45 lbs per gun.
Minus the wood from the stocks.
@Alan d’Eon wrong.
We did the same in Brazil many years ago and since then the violence has increased a lot.
Because the criminals still have guns.
And the regular person have nothing to defend themselves with
@mrr Glass Oops. Bring in the New World Order. Any resistance? I think not. Seriously, Switzerland has mandatory military service, and the 4th highest possession of guns per capita, and as a result have a safe and democratic country. I seem to recall a village in Mexico overrun by drug cartels that took up arms, chased out the cartel, only to have government confiscate their guns and the cartel return. I don’t own a gun, but now I see the need for allowing responsible ownership.
Belgian, manufacture guns and the Canadian Armed Forces use to buy from Belgian the FN C1 and FN C2 . Probably, use the steel to manufacture more guns for sale.
I lived in a country with strict gun control for 20 years and the amount of petty crime, drug and human trafficking was through the roof.
This makes me sad hopefully they took the best condition weapons and put them in a museum
🤧and in my country of Trinidad and Tobago🇹🇹,steel giant AcelorMittal was closed down😔
That steel may end up being used to make more gun in the future.
Or a spaceship that saves humanity.
Criminals trade in old outdated broken weapons that are have been used in crimes and use the money they get to buy better, clean, newer ones.
“Every nation gets the government that it deserves.”