Posted on 07/18/2007 6:32:15 PM PDT by Daffynition
CHICAGO — City officials again will use the carrot approach to reducing the number of guns in Chicago, by offering a $100 pre-paid gift card for each weapon turned in this weekend.
Mayor Richard Daley said no questions will be asked Saturday of people who visit one of 23 locations designated as drop-off sites. The surrendered handguns, shotguns and rifles they leave behind will be destroyed by police.
“One of the best crime-fighting strategies at our disposal is very simple — getting guns off our streets … and out of the hands of people who, unfortunately, would misuse them,” Daley said during a news conference at a Near North Side church.
Some 4,300 guns have been collected through the annual “Gun Turn-In” events, according to Vance Henry, director of the police department’s Chicago Community Policing Alternative Strategies. CAPS and religious leaders serve as sponsors, with corporate support.
Chicago prohibits residents from keeping handguns unless they were registered with police before 1983. Nonetheless, guns are involved in 80 percent of the city’s murders, Daley said. To date, there have been 225 homicides in Chicago, the police department said.
Proponents of the gun-amnesty program emphasized the toll that gun violence has taken on young people. So far this year, several Chicago students have perished in gang-related shootings.
“Every gun turned in is potentially another life saved,” said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who joined Daley on Tuesday.
Drop-off sites will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. For information about locations, call (312) 744-5000.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I got a Raven .25 I’ll turn in,...No wait.. I can prolly get $100 bucks for that in cash. The heck witha gift card
Just another chance for Daley and Jackson to grandstand. These programs don’t work and most of the people turning in the guns wouldn’t normally want to be near police at any other time in their lives.
If I show up with a non-functional gun, I get a $100 gift card?
A bb gun?
A starter's pistol?
A toy gun?
I wonder if I could turn in a piece of crap at all 23 locations in one day?
Can I use my $100 gift card at a gun shop?
Boortz ran the numbers on these idiotic gun buy-backs and found that, statically, to save just one life would require taking 65,000 guns off the streets. Hardly the most effective use of finite resources.
One can only wonder how many stolen weapons or weapons used in crimes are bought in these no-questions-asked programs.
And remember that 99.6% of the guns in America were NOT used in a crime today.
That's only $6.5 million to save a life. Are you seriously proposing that $6.5 million could be better spent?
I'll bet if we gave you the money you'd just waste it on something really stupid and inefficient... like, um, hiring 165 extra police officers for a year. Right? ;-)
And remember that 99.6% of the guns in America were NOT used in a crime today.
Um, that's probably more like 99.6% of the guns in America are NEVER used in a crime. As for today specifically, I'd guess it's probably more like 99.99999% of the guns in America were NOT used in a crime.
Most of the guns turned in in these programs surely are broken or crappy guns worth less than $100. Its free entrerpise at work only. Then a few liberals also show up to turn their guns in too.
How do they buy BACK a gun that they never owned in the first place? Guns don’t come from police stations, they come from gun makers. The latter are the only ones who could possibly hold gun buy-backs.
Good-One!
Right on! and Daley is such a corrupt SOB that he makes me sick-JJ in the background saying ‘Hey, remember me? Look I’m supporting a typical liberal stance can I be famous again..huh..please?”
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