Aw, shucks,....I missed it and actually had the gall to buy more ammo, and plan a dastardly range trip Sun ;D 8) ;D.
http://iansa.org/
9 July is International Gun Destruction Day and this year it is being marked by governments, UN agencies and NGOs through gun destruction events and awareness raising programmes around the world.
In Macedonia, CIVIL, the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and representatives from the Ministry of Interior held a press conference launching the selection of winners of a national drawing contest on gun violence that started during the Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence. In Mozambique, guns have been destroyed and made into sculptures. In Ghana, the National Peace Council has given radio interviews to raise awareness about the small arms issue.
In the run up to the day, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-LiREC) has been busy promoting effective stockpile management and firearms destruction practices, including a cost-benefit analysis of weapons destruction, throughout the greater Caribbean. “Every gun that is destroyed is a weapon that is no longer available to be used to kill, injure or intimidate. These events symbolise the worldwide campaign to bring the flood of guns under control”, said Rebecca Peters, IANSA Director.
875 million guns are currently circulating in the world and the number is growing. Guns produced by far outnumbers guns destroyed. Unregulated guns are involved in crime, killings, forced displacement, rape and torture across the world.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon
“Crucially, governments must be able to exercise legitimate authority and provide safety, security and development to their citizens. If they do not, their citizens may seek to guarantee their security through alternative forms of self-protection, retributive justice or resort to armed violence. As long as the human security of affected populations remains unanswered, both in terms of personal and socio-economic security, the negative impact of small arms will continue to exist.” (S/2008/258)
Your damn right ass-hat, it's called "guaranteed security" to kick you and your ilk out of power when you have pushed enough of your fascist, tyrannical, all-empowering state BS.