Posted on 07/26/2015 11:58:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Fifteen donated firearms lay on a table inside the Baltimore Urban League Center. A total of 17 weapons were anonymously exchanged for laptops provided by Street Geeks of Baltimore. Following the collection, the weapons will be destroyed by the Baltimore Police Department.
As the lyrics of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" echoed through the wooden rafters of the historic Orchard Street Church on Saturday, Richard Wilson stood in a line waiting to pick up a Google Chromebook computer in exchange for turning in a gun to Baltimore police..
The 66-year-old Windsor Mills resident grew up attending services at the church and was happy to return as part of an effort to remove guns from homes while highlighting computer-related careers for Baltimore's youth.
Wilson turned in his late father's .38-caliber snubnose revolver to officers dressed in military-looking green S.W.A.T. uniforms outside the church before climbing the steps to the church to collect his Chromebook.
The heavy police presence — including blocking off vehicle traffic with cruisers and police tape at each end of the 500 block of Orchard Street — contributed to low turnout for the event, said Lance Lucas, chief executive of Digit All Systems and organizer of the exchange. The group collected 17 guns Saturday....
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Oh, wait.
Nevermind.
That’s a good trade. They can sell those guns for a lot more money than a Chromebook costs.
You can wipe the hard drive and install Linux on some of them.
Appears to have been re-bolted.
Nah - looks original and cherry. I’d have bought it.
Yes, let’s get guns out of the homes, so that the only guns will be the ones on the streets.
People turning in guns and Cheb Bush: separated at birth?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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