Posted on 10/14/2013 10:16:30 AM PDT by rellimpank
A group of Milwaukee pastors and their supporters gathered Monday morning at a local coffee shop to implore city officials to sponsor a gun buyback program, which they say could remove weapons from the city's streets and reduce violence in their neighborhoods.
"We are here today because we are fed up," said the Rev. John McVicker Sr., pastor at Christ the King Baptist Church. "There have been far too many senseless shootings in our city, many resulting in homicide."
The pastors have asked the city to allot $50,000 in its 2014 budget to initiate a one-time, anonymous gun buyback, where residents could safely turn over unwanted weapons. People would receive $100 gift cards for giving up handguns and rifles and $200 gift cards for giving up assault weapons. The buyback could be held at churches in ZIP codes with the most violence.
The group is determined to do something about the violence, said the Rev. Mose Fuller, pastor of St. Timothy Community Baptist Church.
"If they say no, we're going to do it anyhow," Fuller said, noting that his church was part of a community-led gun buyback program in 2005 that collected hundreds of guns. "People are tired of the violence."
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I have no idea of what the rate of people being shot in Milwaukee is right now, but infants in this neighborhood demographic are dying at a rate of two per week due to their mothers rolling over on them while asleep.
Mark Belling (WISN talk radio host) is the only person saying anything about this.
The biggest problem I have with what this pastor is doing is that he is missing the whole message of the bible and Christ.
A “Christian” pastor doesn’t see the guns as the problem. Rather, he sees the hearts of men as the problem. He then attacks the problem. And Jesus didn’t come to save physical lives. He came and died to save souls.
At the end of the day, this pastor’s position is more than concerning to me because of its foundational flaws.
Their race is irrelevant. So long as they don’t require OPM (Other People’s Money) they should be free to do as many gun buybacks as they desire. It’s no business of mine so long as they don’t reach in my pocketbook to steal the money for their causes. Shoot (LOL). I might even donate to a gun buyback if they make a good enough case for one, but my concern is they’re not asking for charity. They’re taking. Plenty of whites do the same.
They can’t do math either. $50,000 is 500 firearms, 250 if they happen to qualify as “assault weapons”, whatever that might mean at the moment. That might cover the Ladies’ Needlepoint Society but I doubt it will make much of a dent in the ‘hood.
I don't think they are "fed up" to the point where they'll try any of that, but it's a nice thought.
Mr. niteowl77
Say, I have a better idea. How about turning in the punks you know who are committing all the gun violence. You do realize that criminals commit the violence and one gun, to them, is as good as the next?
Correlation, not causeation, but indicative that they're probably Democrats wich is relevant
So long as they don’t require OPM (Other People’s Money) they should be free to do as many gun buybacks as they desire
They way I read it is that they want the CITY (read taxpayers) to fund this atrocity.
Maybe they ought to teach their men to keep their peckers in their pants and their women not to dance like hoochie mamas. Maybe they ought really preach the gospel Jesus Christ and not the gospel of social justice.
They can buy all the guns they want but they will still be up to their butts in barbarians.
Jibber Jabber...would also work rather well.....
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As always, these “buy backs” are ridiculous. The only guns that will be turned in are:
1) Guns owned by miguided, non-violent people who would never have used the guns to commit violence anyway, but have been fooled into believing that turning in their guns will somehow reduce violence.
2) Guns brought in by widows who don’t know what to do with their late husbands’ gun collections. They will usually receive only a small fraction of what they could get from a local gun shop.
3) Non working guns owned by thugs and gang members, who will use the money they receive to buy better guns.
4) Stolen guns or guns used in crimes, turned in (for cash) by thugs taking advantage of the “no questions asked” policy.
I believe a “Thug Buy Back Program” would be far more effectivve in reducing violence. Parents or neighbors could bring in local thugs and gang members and exchange them for cash.
But the violence is not so bad that they're willing to put their own funds behind their idea.
Now I get it. Your compassion is touching, Pastors.
I’m guessing about a 25% skim on this scam from that august body of theologians.
Absolutely.
When was it that the Rev. Al gave up his oh so trendy sweat suits. I know it’s been a long while see was sporting the down with the peeps look.
Pastors demand Milwaukee launch gun buyback program
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Can we buy the pastors and send them to china?
“Hmm. There is something that all of these people have in common. Besides hating freedom and worshiping 0bama and being idiots. What could it be?”
satan
from occupied ga: “They way I read it is that they want the CITY (read taxpayers) to fund this atrocity.”
That’s my beef with the gun buyback. We can debate whether or not these things are effective. I personally think they’re a waste of time, but I respect those who disagree.
I also agree these are very likely loyal Democrats. Again, I respect their right to be anti-gun. That’s not the issue for me. The issue for me is that they want to rob my pocketbook for their pet causes. I didn’t like it any better when President Bush wanted $30 billion for AIDS in Africa.
This gun buyback explains why the country is so polarized these days. It’s bad enough that the left wants to impose their views on everyone else, but they also want us to pay for the process. They use the power of government to seize our property and our liberty, and then they have the gall to expect us to be all civil about it.
Again, there are very few causes that couldn’t be done on a private, voluntary basis. Student loans, feeding the poor, housing, free clinics, etc. could all be done like that, but it’s so much easier for the left to simply pawn these tasks off on government. They not only like spending OPM but they put the onus on government to do the work for them, too.
Going out and asking for voluntary donations, selling the plan to other people, and then working the actual buyback, that’s too much like real work.
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