“Jewelry Made From AK-47s, for the Greater Good,” Lauren Covello of Fox Business News assumes.
She’s “reporting” about Fonderie 47, an “organization [that] helps fund the removal of illegal assault rifles in Africa – in part by selling high-end, custom jewelry made from AK-47s.” That all “assault rifles” would be deemed “illegal” by brutal thugs in power goes unchallenged (but let’s stay focused on Africa and I’ll write about Mayors Against Illegal Guns some other time).
We’re told “a $25,600 ring will enable the destruction of 75 assault rifles; a set of $35,000 cufflinks will lead to the destruction of 100 assault rifles.”
That’s a pretty good deal they’ve got going there, since at that rate, in some regions of Africa, you could buy over three times that many fully-functional AKs. Perhaps a demand for pricey blood bling will have the unintended consequence of reinvigorating black market profitability.
The guns used to make expensive jewelry for well-heeled hoplophobes come from the Democratic Republic of Congo, we are informed, which, based on its “gun control” laws, ought to be a Brady Campaign Paradise—if we are to believe that citizen disarmament leads to peaceful conflict resolution.
That barbaric thug governments and competing warlords will remain armed is a given. That poor people and their children caught in the middle will have no choice but to be slaughtered at the whim of monsters seems to be as well—it’s their designated lot in life, courtesy of all those who would deny them the means of predator resistance.
Hey, what are Third World human lives compared to the life of a someone who can afford a “cause” ring that costs over 135 times the annual income of the average Congolese? Besides, we’re assured, it’s all for the “greater good.”
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Mr. Vanderboegh goes to Washington
Thing is, not being an “Authorized Journalist,” he has no travel and expense account provided for. Seeing as how they’ve been, for the most part, either negligent or hostile in this whole Gunwalker imbroglio, if you receive value from Mike’s work, help him complete it and receive even more value.
Must a man also pay for the privilege of working like a dog and around the clock to bring us the truth?
Like I said, if you receive value from his work, do the right thing.
Click here. And pass it on.
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Armed American Radio
I talked about last Sunday’s program here. The archive is now posted.
You can listen to it here.
Spend some time on his site while you’re there.
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