Nashville Tennesse's NewsChannel 5 reports that cops are patting themselves on the back for destroying some firearms and knives, like it will somehow have an affect on crime.

Tuesday morning, Metro police officers helped destroy 17,050 guns, knives and illegal weapons.

They loaded the weapons into cars at a salvage yard and loaded the cars into shredder, which hammers the metal into chunks no larger than a fist.

"I am happy to say that after today, these guns will never fire another bullet or threaten another citizen," said Deborah Faulkner, Metro's acting police chief.

Deborah Faulkner sounds like an idiot. Guns don't threaten people; people threaten people. If you catch a man waving a gun at people, you don't blame the gun for threatening people. What good does taking the gun away from a criminal do, if you destroy the gun while setting the criminal free? (which is exactly what lefties do.)

As if that wasn't loony enough, the media states in a rather condescending way: "The metal will be sold and used for steel to make things like washing machines and car parts. The different kinds of metal mean the chunks cannot be sold to make new guns."

That's right, you are safe now. These chunks of metal won't come back from the dead to threaten you ever again. They will be made into washing machines, and washing machines cannot hurt you.