Posted on 03/31/2013 5:27:09 AM PDT by marktwain
The Miami Beach Police Department declared the city's first ever gun buyback held at the convention center Saturday a success with more than two dozens firearms turned in to authorities.
"As you can see on the table we have four shotguns and a number of semi-automatic pistols, as well as revolvers," Miami Beach Police Chief Raymond Martinez said. "Those are the type of weapons that we are encountering on the streets here."
"Anything we can do to take a weapon off the street is one less potential disaster," Commissioner Jerry Libbin said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcmiami.com ...
No Jerry Libbin you idiot. You fight crime by taking CRIMINALS off the street! Idiot.
Thanks for posting this so I didn't have to read the inane article to know that is was indeed a "buy back".
Someone with the IQ of more than a frog please tell me how 25 (probably worthless) guns traded for cash reduces violence? Please make the case, someone - anyone? In every which way I think about these idiotic buy-backs, I can't understand why the authorities think it does anything other than make them look like they're doing something.
We are truly governed by feel-good idiots.
Whoa! Stop right there! You can’t go arresting Democrat voters like that. How would people like Jerry Libbin ever get appointed/elected if they arrested their supporters?
My point wasn’t the misuse of the language, but the hype, as if the two dozen figure was some incredible amount.
Two dozen guns? My wife and I take more than that when we go to a CAS match.
Only a Gun Control Nazi cheers that 25 guns were seized at a gun buy back event.
You can find more guns in 5 minutes in a South Beach nightclub
Anything? Going door to door would work a lot better, wouldn't it Jerry? Just think of all the "potential disasters" you could avoid!
24 guns...it was very nice of two or three Miami gangsters to see the error of their ways, to renounce violence, and turn in all of their weapons. This is a huge success.
I was just adding to the incongruity for "comic" effect - not criticizing. Why waste an opportunity to make fun of the Left?
Well, that is "more than two dozen." Unless you're talking bakers' dozens. So this is quite an accomplishment, and it's going to make me re-think my entire position on the second amendment.
Well, “over two dozen” guns were turned in.
That’s what - less than 10% of you you can find on the dance floor at most South Beach Clubs on Friday or Saturday night?
At today's prices? That is a joke!
Double or triple that and I will go to the local gun shop and buy up enough junk to pay for a new Glock or Beretta.
A feel good event for the police chief to get some PR against private ownership.
Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you
If you’re young at heart
Every crook needs to upgrade his weapon now and then and these buybacks provide a good opportunity to sell the old gun and obtain a nice hunk of cash toward a newer one.
If those are kinds of guns they’re encountering on the streets, Miami must not have much of a problem with the dreaded , black , scary looking ‘assault rifles’.
It was a very nasty place in the early 70s, when I lived in Coral Gables. I can hardly imagine what a hellhole it’s like now. When the EBT Cards empty-out, I wouldn’t want to within 200 miles of that tribal war zone. LOL.
More than two dozen weapons? Seriously?
There was some place where 2nd Amendment supporters set up across the street from a gun buy back and offered good prices for the best guns.
“There was some place where 2nd Amendment supporters set up across the street from a gun buy back and offered good prices for the best guns.”
Link to an article with links to more than a dozen such events here:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/03/azopportunity-for-cheap-guns-phoenix.html
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