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SALT LAKE CITY — With a six-minute video posted on Facebook, Scott Pappalardo became the face of the ethical gun owner to many Americans.
Looking at the camera just three days after Nikolas Cruz allegedly killed 17 people at a Florida high school, Pappalardo said, “The barrel of this gun will never be pointed at someone,” then sawed his cherished AR-15 in half.
Pappalardo, who lives in New York, is not the only gun owner who was motivated to get rid of an AR-15-style weapon after the Valentine’s Day massacre in Parkland, Florida.
Florida resident Ben Dickmann surrendered his AR-57 to his local sheriff’s office, saying, “No one without a law enforcement badge needs this rifle.” In California, a father who was assembling the gun with his son turned in his gun, too.
But the ethical questions that have been raised in the aftermath of America’s most recent mass murder go beyond whether civilians should own semiautomatic weapons.
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