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NYC Gun Buyback: $200 Bank Card for Handgun
New York City will hold a gun buyback on Saturday, offering a $200 bank card in exchange for a working handgun.
"There are just too many guns on the streets and getting them off the streets is not a solution totally, but it helps,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday.
The exchanges can be made at three locations in Harlem.
Bloomberg News reports this is just the latest buyback in a program that started in 2008. Since then some 7,000 guns have been turned in.
While that number is just a small dent in the number of guns out there, State Senator Bill Perkins said buyback plans are among the most cost-effective government programs because they also reduce hospital costs, missed days of work and insurance payouts.
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Id LOVE to have a truckload
Id LOVE to have a truckload of those old $79 dollar Jennings semi auto 32's. More than 100% profit at the taxpayers expense.
Only naive liberals believe
Only naive liberals believe programs like this work. Studies have shown that even when programs like this are in effect for years they have no impact on violent crime or gun deaths. No one is forced to turn in their guns and the types of people that participate don't use their guns to kill people. People turn in guns that are broken or ones they want to replace. Many still keep another gun or even go buy a new one with the money they get from this program. If you believe that a violent criminal is going to turn in his gun because he suddenly sees the light of day or is lured by the cash...you're an idiot. The violent criminal will always have a gun..program or not. Many have argued that the purpose is to get the guns out of homes, but..as I said before...if they want a gun in the house they will have a gun in the house even if they sell an unwanted gun to this program. Any success of fully removing a gun from a house just makes one more house vulnerable to creating victims in a break-in by a violent criminal.
Liberalism is a mental disease.