Posted on 02/13/2015 3:48:00 AM PST by RS_Rider
Raymond Ventrone figured there had to be a better way to get people to surrender guns than offering “a few hundred dollars or a Giant Eagle gift card.”
“I've never thought that was much incentive to turn a gun in for guys who make $2,000 or $3,000 a week selling drugs,” he said. “Let's go a step further and offer them a career.”
Ventrone, business manager of Boilermakers Local 154 in Banksville, convinced his union to partner with Pittsburgh and Allegheny County police departments to establish a “Guns for Opportunity” program that offers anyone who turns in a gun the opportunity for free technical education and a career.
Police will collect and dispose of surrendered guns — no questions asked — and the Boilermakers will enroll participants in welding school.
Ventrone said he wants to provide alternate opportunities to neighborhoods hard hit by violence and crime.
“We're going to go into each neighborhood, ask them to lay down their arms and give them the opportunity to come into our trade,” he said. “But they're going to have to work. They're not just going to give their guns and become a boilermaker the next day.”
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Gee....I wonder how that’s going to work. Here’s a question. Anyone here ever see a looter stealing work boots?
The first thing they’ll be asking for is a “living wage” while they are training. Likely, the union will be getting a grant from Obama to allow them to pay the ‘trainees’.
Drop you gun, and join a union. Do you have to swear allegiance to Lenin while you’re at it?
Instead of killing each other over drug turf sales, they’ll kill each other over job assignments.
My first thought was the Boilermakers are recruiting muscle for non work related union activities.
LOL! Quote of the week.
It just might work. Look at the Obama. He was one of those
$2,000 or $3,000 a week drug dealers and now he gets to
play president. Of course now days you have to be a crook or
the spawn of a family of crooks to be president. At least
that has been the case with the last four.
” and the Boilermakers will enroll participants in welding school. “
You still need a job to complete an apprenticeship.
Figures the boilermakers would recruit criminals. Birds of a feather flock together.
“My first thought was the Boilermakers are recruiting muscle for non work related union activities.”
Not bad. You could be right.
For $40/hr., I’ll turn in a hunk of rust. I’ll deal with the Marxists when I get there.
Not many workplaces go out of their way to recruit undesirables. So the only requirement for this opportunity it to be dumb enough to participate in a gun grab.
Why offer them welding training? Mr. Ventrone should offer up his own job to one of the street thugs in exchange for their weapon. The required qualifications being quite low...
I imagine that there are plenty of honest hard working people that would love to have the opportunity for free technical training, why squander it on a thug.
Banksville Rd. Boilermakers - right over the hill from me.
This really gets me steamed.
Stolen from another FReeper. But highly applicable here.
This is an elitist thing.
Union guys are big gun owners and hunters. They don’t understand the RKBA though. It slips right past their nimble brains, as they vote for the zer0bamas of the world.
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