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North Carolina voluntary gun surrender event produces big results (LOL Alert)
Hot Air ^ | November 22, 2015 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 11/22/2015 3:55:56 PM PST by Zakeet

A staple among the more "reasonable" gun control advocates in America is the voluntary gun turn-in or buy-back program. Hillary Clinton has recently gone on record as a big supporter of these programs, whether they be optional or… not so optional, like in Australia. If you had any doubt about the effectiveness of such plans, the folks in Greensboro, North Carolina were out to prove you wrong this month. They held just such an event where they would accept any number of weapons, getting them off the streets and presumably out of the hands of criminals.

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So how did that turn out? If you read the coverage from this Time Warner Cable News Network report it was a smashing success. Almost 1,000 people turned out and it was a glorious day to get guns off the streets.

Almost 1000 people took "A Pledge of Non-Violence" Saturday at Destiny Christian Center in Greensboro.

This was to show their commitment to safety across the Gate City.

Gun owners also turned in unwanted firearms and ammunition at the event.

Signing the pledge and turning in weapons was spurred, in part, by an increase in gun violence across the city.

So that's a big win all the way around, right? Sure ... but the details of the "success" become a bit less impressive if you watch the video associated with the report.

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As evidenced by the footage accompanying the story, the gun turn-in apparently resulted in a single BB pistol and a single sheathed hunting knife being "taken off the streets."

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2ndamendment; banglist; election2016; guncontrol; guns; mediabias; msm; newyork; northcarolina; secondamendment; trump
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Before you guys laugh too hard at the MSM idiots, you should realize that they made a few dozen libtards feel better ... and that's what's really important!

1 posted on 11/22/2015 3:55:56 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Looks like a couple of pretty cool Christmas presents for a 10 year old boy.


2 posted on 11/22/2015 4:02:18 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: Zakeet

Those pledges people signed on paper can be hazardous to your health, paper cuts you know.

Oh I forgot, BB guns can put your eye out.


3 posted on 11/22/2015 4:04:00 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Zakeet
Almost 1000 people took "A Pledge of Non-Violence" Saturday at Destiny Christian Center in Greensboro.

I have no problem taking a "No Unprovoked Violence Pledge".But no other type.

4 posted on 11/22/2015 4:10:16 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Zakeet

They aren’t publicizing the dates or locations of the ones in Chicago. The last time they did the ISRA turned in a bunch of crap guns and then bought new ones to outfit a shooting camp for kids.


5 posted on 11/22/2015 4:13:56 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Zakeet
At least that's one BB gun and one hunting knife that will be off the streets when Barry's newly-released, "unaccompanied" criminal felons are put back on the streets.

sarc/

6 posted on 11/22/2015 4:23:32 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America can only be destroyed from within.)
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To: Zakeet

They had one of these in Maryland a few days ago. They claimed 300 weapons, but the photos show about 50 handguns and 5 long guns. I’d bet their “weapons” included “high-capacity” magazines and loose ammo.


7 posted on 11/22/2015 4:25:02 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Zakeet.

8 posted on 11/22/2015 4:31:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Zakeet
Carolina sure-nuff has changed since i was last there
9 posted on 11/22/2015 4:32:38 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: Zakeet

THE WORLD IS NOW SAFE!/S


10 posted on 11/22/2015 4:34:49 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Zakeet
If I sign the piece of paper as Donald Duck do I get the sheathed hunting knife ?
11 posted on 11/22/2015 4:39:20 PM PST by TYVets
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To: Zakeet

If I chew a gun form from a pop-tart, will they buy it back?

Think of the schools and the children that will never be harmed!


12 posted on 11/22/2015 4:48:54 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Zakeet

I didn’t think so. At least in our neighborhood every single home has a gun (usually more).

One of our clients has a gun shop as a second business. He opens after church on Sunday, so pastors can stop by and shop. I think every preacher in that county is armed.


13 posted on 11/22/2015 5:02:20 PM PST by Roses0508
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To: Zakeet

What a relief!!


14 posted on 11/22/2015 5:08:38 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Zakeet

#BlackGunsMatter


15 posted on 11/22/2015 5:13:58 PM PST by Gritty (The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates. So screw the candlelight vigil. - Mark Steyn)
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A few years ago here in Virginia, a group of gun rights guys went to a gun buyback and offered folks more than the police were offering and picked up a lot of weapons at under the bargain basement prices. We ought to do this all over whenever we hear of these programs.


16 posted on 11/22/2015 5:24:27 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: P8riot
I don't think I would want to do that in that part of North Carolina.

The folk in NC are not stupid

17 posted on 11/22/2015 6:16:54 PM PST by TYVets
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To: Hugin

Not really. Running around where I live with a realistic looking B.B. gun like that just might get you shot.


18 posted on 11/22/2015 6:21:08 PM PST by BBell
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To: Lurker
They are not publicizing the dates or locations of the ones in Chicago. The last time they did the ISRA turned in a bunch of crap guns and then bought new ones to outfit a shooting camp for kids.

Now that is outside the box thinking!

19 posted on 11/22/2015 7:04:13 PM PST by Ken H
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To: P8riot
Mohammad, a freshman studying computer science at UC Merced, was found to have a printout image of the Islamic State flag alongside a handwritten manifesto with detailed instructions to behead students and multiple reminders to praise Allah. Still, investigators have maintained there is no indication that he had any terrorist ties.

I was wondering how many of the people that showed up were hoping to get a few firearms cheap from those who might be silly enough to bring operable weapons to give away free.

I have a friend that was a fireman who was sitting in the fire house one day when a recently widowed wife of a WW II vet came in to the fire house an asked the fireman if they could dispose of her husband’s war souvenirs.

After they got off they went to the woman’s home and took possession of her husband’s foot locker which contained among other firearms a fully functional Thompson submachine gun.

My friend would never say what became of the contents of that foot locker. I will say that he was an avid fisherman who had more than his share of accidents with his boat.

20 posted on 11/23/2015 1:38:37 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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