A Unitarian church in Middlebury Vermont has been attempting to induce people to give their guns to the Government to be destroyed for a price far below market value. From wcax.com:
Posted on 08/13/2013 6:17:13 PM PDT by marktwain
A Unitarian church in Middlebury Vermont has been attempting to induce people to give their guns to the Government to be destroyed for a price far below market value. From wcax.com:
Minister Barnaby Feder says he recognizes that guns tend to sell for much more than $50 online, but that he hopes this incentive will at least make people aware of the option to dispose of firearms. So far no guns have been brought to the police department for cash.I do not see anyone organizing massive protests over this clear Church/State cooperation. The money has been turned over to the Middlebury police department, which has also agreed to oversee destruction of the valuable items.
It seems peculiar to me that the church would want this valuable property destroyed, rather than sold and the proceeds used for charity. After all, the destruction of every used gun only increases the demand for new guns, by decreasing the supply of guns in the used market.
Perhaps the ideology of gun hatred overcomes the desire to help the poor in this case.
A book has recently been published to show that Christianity supports ownership of weapons by Christians. Some Christians, however, say that many Unitarians are not Christians.
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No guns turned in ... sounds like it was Successful to me!
As incredible as this may sound: Vermont has some of the best gun laws, or lack of them, in all 50 states.
Generally all we need to do is offer a bit more cash for the good ones upstream of the church/state deodand collection location.
And when you get one of those naughty bits of hardware, be sure to imprison it safely, until you take it out for some supervised exercise.
I read about a place giving $350 in cash on a buyback and people were buying $120 airsoft guns and turning them in.
lol. I still laugh at that
Fifty dollars for a gun worth three hundred. Yeah, right.
Seems obvious that the only real stupid people are the Unitarians and the politicians of Vt.
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