{"id":62351,"date":"2015-10-17T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62351"},"modified":"2015-10-16T18:50:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T22:50:03","slug":"steve-elliott-im-a-responsible-gun-owner-so-i-destroyed-my-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62351","title":{"rendered":"Steve Elliott: I\u2019m a responsible gun owner, so I destroyed my gun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Elliott wrote in the Washington Post<\/a> how he’s such special snowflake of a gun owner, that he destroyed his guns to save the rest of us from ourselves. <\/p>\n

Steve, according to his short biography at the Post was once a journalist, so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that he tries to make the gun issue about him rather than the real issue. And, oh, he is better than the rest of us anyway, you know because he wrote about some things once. Anyway, he got tired of listening to the gun debate so he cut up his Ruger handgun. He has other guns, but now, there’s one less gun – which is his hashtag, by the way.<\/p>\n

At first, when I read the article when Chief Tango sent it to me, I was going to make fun of him for being so naive to think that destroying a single handgun (that he admits he bought to protect his family) could make a difference. That one former journalist writing about his reasons for making one less gun exist in the world would change the world and make all of the gangbangers reconsider their gun ownership.<\/p>\n

I had actually planned on calling him names like “pussy”, “idiot”, “fantasist”. I’ll even admit that it crossed my mind to call him a “stank-ass hippie” once or twice. But, then, I reconsidered during my second reading of his article. I wanted to be a a responsible gun owner, and Steve shamed me just enough. So I did the same as him, I cut up all of my guns into tiny pieces. <\/p>\n

Luckily, here in West Virginia, we don’t have to prove to the state that we destroyed a gun, like Steve, my savior, had to do in California – because that would be a lot of pictures, and I’m a little tired from cutting up my scores of guns. So you and all of those other people out there who are after my guns will have to take my word for it.<\/p>\n

Even though Steve gets the credit for shaming me into cutting my guns up, I’m still a better person than him because I cut up all of my guns and he still has some. Neener, neener, Steve. #fiftylessguns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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