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City gets $650,000 to fight gun crime
Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch ^ | February 24, 2005 | DAVID RESS

Posted on 02/24/2005 11:38:58 AM PST by The Other Harry

City gets $650,000 to fight gun crime Mayor and police chief are figuring out how to use surprise funds

BY DAVID RESS TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Feb 24, 2005

Everyone should have a rich uncle like this: Richmond's is named Sam, and he cut the city a surprise check for $650,000 yesterday to fight gun violence.

The money is from the Bush administration's "Project Safe Neighborhoods" and amounts to a little more than half the funds allocated to Paul J. McNulty, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

"This was unsolicited," Mayor L. Douglas Wilder said. "It took us totally by surprise."

(Excerpt) Read more at timesdispatch.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; bush43; dougwilder; paulmcnulty; safeneighborhoods

1 posted on 02/24/2005 11:39:04 AM PST by The Other Harry
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To: The Other Harry

hmm gun crime. Is that when people try to ban the use of guns? it's about time someone donated a lot of money to fight those liberals. ;)


2 posted on 02/24/2005 11:40:15 AM PST by tfecw (Vote Democrat, It's easier then working)
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Yeah, they will use this money to get the guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens or a buy back program where they pay $200 for a $40 .25 Raven.


3 posted on 02/24/2005 11:42:54 AM PST by speed_addiction (Ninja's last words, "Hey guys. Watch me just flip out on that big dude over there!")
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To: The Other Harry

Isn't richmond the city the NRA was saying was stopping gun crimes by going after criminals instead of banning guns?


4 posted on 02/24/2005 11:49:54 AM PST by hoosierboy
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Isn't richmond the city the NRA was saying was stopping gun crimes by going after criminals instead of banning guns?

If you read the article, I think that is how Wilder intends to use it. Don't jump to conclusions.

5 posted on 02/24/2005 11:55:21 AM PST by The Other Harry
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To: The Other Harry

Draconian sentences for gun weilding trolls is how you stop gun crime......


6 posted on 02/24/2005 12:00:33 PM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert Heinlein)
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To: The Other Harry

Are they going to buy guns for law-abiding citizens? That's about the effective way I can see to spend the money (though I'd still consider it unfair to the taxpayers who didn't get one).


7 posted on 02/24/2005 12:08:56 PM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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impressed by Wilder's efforts on crime

He's been the mayor for 1.5 months. What were his efforts? I guess the city now has enough $$$ for that brand new baseball stadium for the Braves, AAA.

8 posted on 02/24/2005 12:12:10 PM PST by kdot
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If you read the article, I think that is how Wilder intends to use it. Don't jump to conclusions.

Here's my conclusion:

Wilder said he hoped the check would not be just a one-time thing, saying he wanted the city to use it for pilot programs that could draw more federal money and serve as examples for other cities.

Mo money, mo money, mo money.

9 posted on 02/24/2005 12:13:15 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: The Other Harry

It's those damn guns! They float through the air all by themselves committing crime...


10 posted on 02/24/2005 12:13:56 PM PST by Tulsa Brian (EBEORIETEMETHHPITI)
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To: speed_addiction
I've got a few guns I wouldn't mind getting $200 a piece for. I'll go buy some more too. I could make a profit. Then I could go and buy one of these:


11 posted on 02/24/2005 12:57:17 PM PST by P8riot (Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.)
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Excuse me, another one of these. Before the feds ban them.


12 posted on 02/24/2005 1:20:47 PM PST by P8riot (Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.)
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