Posted on 03/28/2013 8:51:33 AM PDT by marktwain
Tucson residents living in crime-ridden areas could soon receive free shotguns.
Operating on the premise an armed neighborhood is a safer neighborhood, a group led by former mayoral candidate Shaun McClusky is raising money to purchase shotguns and provide training for anyone who lives in a mid- to high-crime neighborhood and can pass a background check.
The project is part of a developing nationwide movement to see if more guns really do translate into less crime.
McClusky said he's bringing the program to Tucson because the City Council has failed to properly fund the Police Department, leaving many residents easy targets for criminals.
"We need to take back our city, and it needs to come back to the citizens and not the criminals," McClusky said. "Right now, the criminal element is winning."
Over the next couple of weeks, McClusky and others will begin spreading leaflets and posting fliers in Midvale Park, Pueblo Gardens and a yet-to-be-determined midtown neighborhood to induce residents to sign up for the program.
McClusky said the shotguns will be single-break-action guns that can hold only one shell. Pump-action shotguns have been considered, but that will depend on cost. For now, each gun will cost $205, which includes a box of ammunition. With the training and background checks included, McClusky estimates it will cost about $350 to $400 per person.
McClusky said his group won't be making the same tactical error as Mark Kelly did recently - buying weapons not for their own use. Instead, they will donate the money for individuals to fill out the background checks and purchase the weapons for themselves.
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From what I’ve hear even the 12 ga. has very little recoil. Also being built on the AK design it should be very dependable no matter what abuse it might have to go through. And of course it would be a lot of fun.
Easy to test his point of view: send the cops in without “instruments to facilitate more crime”.
Come to think of it, that just may save the lives of a few dogs.
This was a fatally flawed study: it didn't support the Lib meme.
“This was a fatally flawed study: it didn’t support the Lib meme.”
Yeah, John dared to use real FBI crime data which as you noted didn’t support the lefties meme.
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