That's why there are no more street shootings and murders in Chicago!
Posted on 04/16/2022 8:35:04 AM PDT by rellimpank
Chicago officials launched a fundraising campaign to support the city's largest ever gun buyback program, with the goal of raising $1 million to entice people to turn in guns during two large events this year.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot called it a "bold new initiative" and said it would get "guns out of the hands of dangerous people." Chicago and other cities have been running these programs for decades, often trading gift cards of $100 or so for guns and some lesser amount for replica guns.
Chicago officials annually take in. But decades of research shows such programs don't reduce gun violence, in large part because they don't result in guns being taken from people who aren't supposed to have them. One recent study found "no evidence that (gun buyback programs) reduce suicides or homicides where a firearm was involved."
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I would like to see empirical evidence that any gun law has reduced firearms violence.
Well, if I were a gangbanger I wouldn’t be trading in my shiny new Glock for a stupid gift card. But I just might trade in grandpa’s rusty old inoperable 22 revolver. So I guess there’s that.
Thousands of newer better weapons are produced every day.
A few hundred hear and there mean nothing.
Yeah, I’m SURE this idiot buy back crap got the “guns out of the hands of dangerous people”. Sure thing.
Let’s see how that works. I stole a gun, turned it in on a buy back special, collect $$$, and go out and steal another gun. Let at it.
No kidding? I’m absolutely stunned that criminals wouldn’t participate.
It’s not a buyback.
They can’t “buy back” what they never owned in the first place.
It’s another form of leftist virtue signaling at the expense of taxpayers that doesn’t actually accomplish anything.
And how many of the really valuable and collectable guns never make it to the shredder?
The guns weren't property of the state in the first place, so the language is wrong. But it gives the illusion of firearms being leviathan's property.
The majority of,people turning in guns turn in broken guns and they do so for drug money, and laugh all the way to their dealers
That's why there are no more street shootings and murders in Chicago!
Stop trying to take guns out of circulation. What’s proven to work bbn is taking THUGS out of circulation.
I look at gun buybacks as a subsidy for gun manufacturers.
Government buys your broken down, crap gun, then you use that money to help pay for your new gun.
Good point.
It’s nothing more than virtue signaling. When you have 300 to 400 million privately held firearms in circulation, taking a couple dozen out is like trying to drain a lake with an eye dropper.
Any criminal who actually turns in a gun has already used it in a crime. Actually, no. Ghetto crooks ain’t that smart.
Because of two problems, at least.
One, it’s not a buy back since the government didn’t sell the guns in the first place.
The other is that guns are NOT the cause of the violence. Getting rid of guns will not prevent violence by those whose nature has been so corrupted by violence.
Stop the violence in the people and the “gun violence” will melt away like frost in the sunlight.
There are 339 million known firearms in the US. There are probably over 400 million in total.
Buying back a couple hundred old, crappy “grandpa shotguns” and bolt action 22lrs is not really going to impact anything.
Guns bought “back” in these programs aren’t taken out of circulation. They weren’t in circulation in the first place, they were dug out of a closet and traded for a Starbuck’s card. For criminals they’re tools of the trade, and you wouldn’t see a plumber selling his wrenches in the middle of a job, would you now?
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