It's amazing how dramatic these people are. They really think they're changing the world with thier "Peace Angel" crap. Their tendency to blame the object instead of the person seems childlike to me, and shows a person's denial to admit that some people are Criminals. They would rather blame an inanimate object.
What they proved was that guns are indeed inanimate, because if they weren't then all of these silly people would have been shot in self-defense!
What they showed was their ridiculously abstract belief in the power of symbols--to the point of ignoring all practical aspects. In their view, guns symbolize evil while angels (statues thereof) symbolize good. They seem to think that by demonizing guns, they're somehow
extracting evil out of the people of their community and destroying it by turning guns into angels, in effect turning the people into little angels.
The obvious problem is that this feel-good crap has absolutely zero effect on the people who actually do evil things with guns (i.e. criminals), because they're not involved in any manner whatsoever--the only inspiration they'll get is that the rest of the community may seem somewhat safer for them to commit crimes against (not in reality, but the symbolism of a community disarming might embolden them nonetheless, if anything).
By the way, symbols only mean what we want them to mean. Guns can be glorified as symbols of self-sufficiency and protection as much as they are demonized as instruments of death and destruction. Likewise, angels can fall from grace and become, well, demonized.
I'm sure that the people who are destroying the guns naively believe that they're accomplishing something beneficial, but their point of view is far too narrow and limited (childlike, as Fatelvis described--bereft of worldly experience) for them to realize that they're actually doing nothing except doling out public funds for no useful purpose and destroying valuable goods in the process. :banghead:
