Even Buffalo’s police commissioner wryly stated that he doesn’t expect
many criminals to be lining up outside seven local churches Sept. 27 to
turn in their weapons for prepaid cash cards.
“But it’s a beginning,” Evans said of the buyback. “We have to start somewhere, so why not start here. If even one gun is taken of the street, it’s worth it.”
No it's not worth it. Do these fools really believe that criminals will turn in guns that that they may want for future crimes? The people who show up for these things are typically ordinary citizens who want to unload old or broken firearms. I have a broken Beretta Tomcat that's not worth fixing. I'd be happy to sell it to these saps for 75 bucks. That's a lot more than I'd get at a pawn shop or gun show and I can use the funds to buy a new one.
"None of last year’s weapons was tested, said Police Department
spokesman Michael J. De- George, so officials cannot say whether any had been
used in crimes. Mayor Byron W. Brown said he hopes the “no questions
asked” buyback will result in even more guns being turned in than last
year."
I guess a criminal could unload a gun with a body on it with no worry. From the Chicago Tribune:
"The continuation of buy-back programs is a triumph of wishful thinking over all
the available evidence," said Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis...University of Pennsylvania professor Lawrence Sherman, who headed a wide-ranging assessment of crime prevention programs, called gun buy-backs "the program that is best known to be ineffective" in reducing firearms violence.
The bottom line is that the gun control nuts continue to think that crime problems are really gun problems. That's an easy, feel good excuse for ineffective law enforcement that does nothing but convince the incompetent and ignorant that they're "making a difference". In fact, a lot of taxpayer money is being wasted to do absolutely nothing.
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