[Izzy Dunne]

Libbin pushed for the one-day event that netted 25 firearms in exchange for as much as a $300 Visa MasterCard gift card. He said its proof that trading cash for guns works to reduce violence.

Call me cynical, but how is selling firearms to the police (at $300 a pop) treated as "proof" that violence is going down?

Can somebody 'splain that to me?

[rktman]

Thank goodness they didn’t lie about the amount turned in according to the headline. Twenty five is “More that two dozen.” Honesty in journalism. How nice.

[A Navy Vet]

"Libbin pushed for the one-day event that netted 25 firearms in exchange for as much as a $300 Visa MasterCard gift card. He said its proof that trading cash for guns works to reduce violence."

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.

[IMR 4350]

Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you
If you’re young at heart

[tet68]

He said its proof that trading cash for guns works to reduce violence.

Oh yeah, it works about as well as Israel trading
land for “peace”.