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Astonishing arsenal of guns collected by cops in buyback program in America's deadliest city
Mail Online ^ | December 18, 2012 | Associated Press, Daily Mail Reporter and James Nye

Posted on 12/19/2012 8:57:44 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buyback; camden; guns; newjersey
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

I wonder how many of those guns were stolen with the express purpose of taking them to the buy-back program. criminals ain’t all stupid.


21 posted on 12/19/2012 9:21:55 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: Westbrook

Enlarging the photo I saw 1 SKS, 1 Mini-14, and a M1 Carbine, but that’s about it on the semi-auto side.


22 posted on 12/19/2012 9:22:56 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
A few days after the tragic Sandy Hook school murders, a young Marine in fatigues stationed himself at the front entrance of the Nashville elementary school his two children attend. Another parent heard him admit to a reporter that he was unarmed. The other parent commented that, even though the young Marine standing guard was not armed, it made him “feel better” to know he was there.

It’s often been observed that “perception is more important than reality”. The observation is often correct. It is never MORE CORRECT than for those we’ve come to call “liberals”. I prefer “statist” but “liberal” has morphed from its classic meaning to the other end of the spectrum so I’ll stay with it.

Since these folks operate almost entirely on EMOTION and FEELING, REALITY seldom allows FACTS to intrude upon the delusional worldview they have constructed and the comfort that provides them. It is that illogical, irrational and delusional mindset that prompts many of them to continue to quest after a Utopian society. The thought that such a society can and will never be achieved in a fallen world populated with failed sinners never penetrates whatever remains of their cognitive consciousness. It’s a DANGEROUS WORLD and, as the liberals continue to “define deviancy down”, it becomes more dangerous daily.

There is another, far more sinister, level of the “liberal” call for gun control.

It was Mencken who offered that “The urge to save humanity is most often a false front for the URGE TO RULE.” He clearly had been a student of the liberal politicians of his day. Were he alive today and able to observe the likes of Chuck Schumer, Diane Feinstein, Obama and the rest, he’d almost certainly have used far stronger language to frame his sage observation.

To conclude, dozens of studies reveal the FACTS concerning gun control. Those FACTS are that where firearms are widely and READILY available to law-abiding citizens, CRIME GOES DOWN! The liberals who willfully ignore the FACTUAL EVIDENCE and continue to call for gun control (i.e. the DISARMING of DECENT CITIZENS, thereby denying them the ability to exercise their God-given right to self-defense) are those about whom Mencken wrote: Their goal is NOT about preserving life. It is about the hell-bent pursuit of the impossible to achieve Utopian world where all are equal but some (that’d be THEM) are MORE equal than others (that’d be US).

There are many PRO-RTKABA videos on You Tube that your often busy lives don’t allow you to find on your own. Search there for “Gun Control”, watch them – and, more importantly – SHARE THEM with the folks in your orbit.

We’re in a fight. And losing will ultimately cost us much more than our right to our guns.

23 posted on 12/19/2012 9:25:26 AM PST by Dick Bachert (An ARMED society is a POLITE society!)
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To: Dick Bachert

I saw what looks like a stainless colt diamondback or python in that pile. Makes me very sad.


24 posted on 12/19/2012 9:30:39 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Up to $ 250.00 per gun, where did Camden get all this buy-back money?

I would bet home burglaries rose dramatically during this period.

I wonder what percentage of registered guns where turned in by their proper owners?

25 posted on 12/19/2012 9:39:18 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Now THAT’S funny!! Really did LOL.


26 posted on 12/19/2012 9:39:35 AM PST by Texan
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

How many gang-bangers turned in their 9mm handguns? None, I’m sure.


27 posted on 12/19/2012 9:40:55 AM PST by expat2
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To: Dick Bachert

And not ONE WORD about boys not having MEN in their lives; At home, or at school, or in daycare. NO MEN. NO DISCIPLINE OF THE SORT ONLY MEN CAN BRING. As another FReeper said, “JUST WAIT ‘TIL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME” carries a LOT of weight and boys need that if they’re going to be taught to have self-respect, honor, dignity, self-discipline, etc.. Fear of God and Fear of authority. Adam was obviously fearless. Discipline needs to start at a YOUNG age or it’s counterproductive. Bring discipline BACK to the schools.


28 posted on 12/19/2012 9:42:41 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: Dick Bachert

“The other parent commented that, even though the young Marine standing guard was not armed, it made him “feel better” to know he was there.”

Well, if something did happen at least one person there would have a clue what to do.

Of course, even a raving lunatic would have the sense to just come back later.


29 posted on 12/19/2012 9:42:48 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: SparkyBass

“I wonder how many of those guns were stolen with the express purpose of taking them to the buy-back program.”

Hell, I wonder how many of them were *bought* to put on display to make the haul looker better.


30 posted on 12/19/2012 9:47:01 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Does it look like that Camden Police Evidence locker was cleaned out for the photo op?


31 posted on 12/19/2012 10:16:32 AM PST by txnativegop (Fed up with zealots)
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My BS meter broke when I saw this photo. Over 1,000 weapons turned in, in a city of 75,000? Something's not right here. Most 'weapon buy back' programs don't yield hardly any guns. The recent buy back done in Baltimore yielded 416 weapons out of a population of over 615,000 people.

It appears the gov't op to EXAGGERATE AMERICANS' APPROVAL OF GUN CONFISCATION is in full swing here. Sickening BS.

32 posted on 12/19/2012 10:31:01 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Well, at least the elephants will be safer.


33 posted on 12/19/2012 10:42:35 AM PST by Rinnwald
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

A reverse F&F the government is now fencing for thieves. We could shut this crap down in a hearbeat if we lable them conspirators to crime. “Elephant gun” except for some old black powder trade guns I suspect anything like that is valuable.


34 posted on 12/19/2012 10:45:08 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Rinnwald

LOL!


35 posted on 12/19/2012 10:58:38 AM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

and five fully automatic weapons.

I call bulshit.


36 posted on 12/19/2012 11:48:29 AM PST by cquiggy
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To: SolidRedState

But everyone “feels” better


37 posted on 12/19/2012 12:29:05 PM PST by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

I suspect the success of any gun buyback program will depend less on the social conscience of the seller and more on the dismal state of the economy.

Need quick cash? Sell an old gun that’s been lying around under the bed for ten years.

Better than a payday loan.


38 posted on 12/20/2012 11:32:45 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (2 Corinthians 4:8)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
"Enlarging the photo I saw 1 SKS, 1 Mini-14, and a M1 Carbine, but that’s about it on the semi-auto side."

I didn't see a bayonet lug on the M1 Carbine, so I'm guessing it's a post-war Iver Johnson. If that's the case, it's really more of a straight-pull bolt action than a semi-auto :-)

39 posted on 12/20/2012 11:36:07 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Thought I saw a Henry lever action in there.


40 posted on 12/21/2012 8:30:34 AM PST by wordsofearnest (Proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs it. C.S. Lewis)
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