Do Gun Turn-In Programs Prevent Shootings?(Chicago)

cbso2chicago ^ | 13 August, 2009 | Mike Flannery

[marktwain]

These buyups of widow's guns are motivated only by ideological fanaticism. They make no sense at all, except to make propagad in a strange ritual that shows inanimate objects as evil.

[SkyDancer]

... and the cops add to their personal gun collections ...

[Doogle]

DO BEARS PREVENT FORREST FIRES?

[Fido969]

Chicago is one of the most heavily gun-controlled places in the country, and it's one of the most violent. If the “community organizers” that run the place really cared about the citizens, they let them defend themselves.

But, that's not who they care about at all.

[junta]

He is especially stressed these days, it seems some Obama voters have taken to prowling the Lincoln Park neighborhood to committ assault and robbery on pedestrians. This is serious business alot of white libs live there, and they do not want to have to move back to the North Shore to be safe in their undying proclamations of love for liberalism, and they would take a bath on the resale. So Dick Daley is grasping at straws while another Democratic city implodes, soon to be the New Detroit. I expect one day to wake up and see smoke in the East as Chicago burns and the refugees stream out to my burb.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Innocent victim shot three times in head...trying to shield a young relative from the bullets. Wait a second.

A three shot group into an area the size of a head takes a lot of attention even at point blank range. And when a head is hit by bullets, it tends to move, being connected to the body. This tells me that unless she was lying down, somebody very intentionally shot her from a short distance away, and continued to aim and shoot her after she moved.

Something is very wrong with this story.

[coloradan]

Do Gun Turn-In Programs Prevent Shootings?(Chicago)

Of course they do, they keep grandma from shooting the thugs breaking into her house a week after she turned her only gun in.

(FR is verrrrrry slow today.)

[marktwain]

A three shot group into an area the size of a head takes a lot of attention even at point blank range. And when a head is hit by bullets, it tends to move, being connected to the body. This tells me that unless she was lying down, somebody very intentionally shot her from a short distance away, and continued to aim and shoot her after she moved.

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Good catch. Obviously more here than meets the reporters pen.

[jrd]

hey when you can take a gas pipe in and a 2x4 and make it look like a gun and some dufas gives you $100.00 that a good deal!

[Dick Bachert]

Boortz did a study of the stats for gun buy backs and found that it takes 65,000 guns to prevent ONE gun-related death.
Hardly cost effective, especially sinct THAT death — as are MOST of them — is almost certainly drug or gang related folks offing one another.

I’d say THAT comes under the heading of a public service.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

In Chicago shootings have a cause other than firearms.

[Drew68]

Innocent victim shot three times in head...trying to shield a young relative from the bullets. Wait a second.

Perhaps multiple shooters firing at the same time?

Whatever. It's a moot point. Witnesses to these types of crimes always leave out details, if they speak to detectives at all.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

I knew a guy who used to buy the chinese air guns that looked like AK’s . He’d get them wholesale for 15 dollars each, and take them to the gun buy backs. The people running the programs didn’t know the difference!

[smokingfrog]

[musicman]

"Do Gun Turn-In Programs Prevent Shootings?(Chicago)"

IMHO, I would think it depends TOTALLY on what kind of example the "organizers" and leaders promoting the program set.

[Will88]

These gun buyback programs were the forerunners of cash for clunkers. Gun buybacks provided the illegal gun owner with a nice down payment on a newer and deadlier model.

[mountainlion]

Do gun buyups rob individuals? Is giving $20 or a movie ticket for a $1000 gun fair? Why not a free class on how to handle a gun by the cops to serve us and protect us? Why not go after criminals and not law abiding citizens?

[Enterprise]

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