Do gun buybacks help stop violence?
L.A. Times
2012/12/27 05:16:44
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Mall parking lots were packed with after-Christmas shoppers. But nowhere were the lines longer than at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena and the Van Nuys Masonic Temple, where thousands of people came to exchange their guns for Ralphs gift cards.
Cars queued up for blocks at the drive-through events, with the city giving cards worth up to $100 for handguns, shotguns and rifles, and up to $200 for assault weapons. There was a bit of haggling involved, but the guns were all taken.
Cars queued up for blocks at the drive-through events, with the city giving cards worth up to $100 for handguns, shotguns and rifles, and up to $200 for assault weapons. There was a bit of haggling involved, but the guns were all taken.
Read More: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1227-gun-b...
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Goducks5 2012/12/27 07:57:49They do little
+25They do nothing except put money back into the hands of the people who brought the firearms. I would like to know how many of the people returning their guns have criminal records. If they don't, what's the point? None of them do though because violent criminals aren't going to give up their firearms. More gun control will just disarm law abiding citizens.
Analyst, Ph.D.
By-The-Way; $100 for my hand guns? I don't think so I don't own anything that cheap.
when they tell me to give them up....thats another story...
However, I do see an upside. People who will sell their gun for $100 probably don't really want it, don't know how to use it properly, and aren't likely to even store it properly. I'd rather have the city buy them back than to have them stolen, be sold on the black-market, or used by someone who hasn't been trained.
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This is Kinda like Cash for clunkers...it really, really worked!! now we don't have global warming anymore, all those bad, bad cars are off the road! man can I breathe easier.
That's not an answer. That's a question. OK I'll bite. How many of the guns were illegal AND in the hands of untrained citizens? Could it be that they were weapons used in murders and they elected to get hide them in plain sight? Did the police take names and then run a forensics test on them to see it they were, indeed, used to commit a murder? Shotguns would be useless to test but rifles and hand guns could easily be tested. Maybe they had more than enough weapons and just wanted the gift card. I don't know.
{weapons were illegal and in untrained hands }
What about
weapons were LEGAL and in untrained hands?
Or
weapons were illegal and in TRAINED hands?
Or
weapons were LEGAL and in TRAINED hands?
No matter which, very few weapons, compared to those 300,000,000 out there already and the boom in gun sales since Newtown, will be traded in. AKA Futility.
Rather than waste further bandwidth on the subject, be a good neighbor and citizen, be vigilant.....and be a proficient.
What else can I say?