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The Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission on Monday announced that it was partnering with Mike Martin of RAWtools which is war spelled backwards to launch the Guns-to-Garden Tools project.
The group said that the idea was based on Isaiah 2:4 from the Bible: And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Colorado Springs lawyer Mike Warren, who purchased an AK-47 assault rifle after the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks, donated his weapon to kick off the project.
I always had it in the back of my mind, there might be something I needed it for, Warren said on Monday. Sounds stupid now.Warren brought his gun to a bike shop in Colorado Springs on Monday to have it destroyed. In video captured by KRDO, sparks fly as a buzz saw cuts through the rifles barrel. The guns high-capacity magazine was also pounded flat with a hammer.
The fisherman and hunter explained that he bought the rifle out of fear and it had been guarding my fishing hole for terrorists.
But the mass killing of 20 elementary school children in Newtown, Connecticut was the last straw, he said.
I offer this up for my own penance, Warren remarked. Its worth some money but I couldnt very well turn it back over into the system. I would then become an arms trader myself.
This thing will turn a human being into rags, he added. The fact of the matter is, upon reflection, I concluded that it would be stupid for me to keep the thing. And now its gone.
Artist Mike Martin told The Gazette that the remains of Warrens firearm would be heated, reshaped and turned into a garden trowel, a cultivator and a weed puller. The tools will then be donated to Ranch Community Garden, a non-profit project that provides plots to local residents who do not have garden space.
Anyone wishing to donate weapons to the Guns-to-Garden Tools project can contact the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace commission.
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Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Way to go!
FirstLight
(13,364 posts)...it's a great idea IMO
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)Those who beat their swords into plowshares might very well be condemned to surrender their grain to those who kept their swords (or, in this case, rifles). The meek's inheritance has been mightily delayed...
I prefer to own both garden implements and firearms, and enjoy the responsible posession, use, care, and artful design of them both.
-app
rightsideout
(978 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)or for getting through the "gumbo-clay" we've got around here
nykym
(3,063 posts)they can also be turned (or tuned) into Guitars.
http://www.un.org/disarmament/education/Movies/ak47_guitar/
annabanana
(52,791 posts)I don't know what is.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)That invokes images of angry old men throwing bird seed at pigeons.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)We know what the bible says about working on Sunday right, if we are going to actually follow it's teachings
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Why?
Such an action needs justification?
Good work anyway....
ReRe
(10,597 posts)...study war no more, ain't gonna study war no more.... sing it. (Well, assault guns ARE war weapons, after all!) I have heard of this nowhere but in Isaiah. Thank you for posting this article, octoberlib.
I hope this idea catches on and spreads across the nation, not to mention the world.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,022 posts)Amen
MAD Dave
(204 posts).....most Abrahamic religions have this concept in their scriptures someway or the other.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)eggplant
(3,913 posts)I'm all for it.