Do gun buybacks make us any safer?

Got the REAL answer -- what we really need is a good sharp stick buyback program --

How much could I get for a double blunt end assault stick from a 6 round Model 12 shotgun magazine:D

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Got the REAL answer -- what we really need is a good sharp stick buyback program -- I've always hated the thought of getting a "sharp stick in the eye" -- there are so many millions of sharp (and semi-sharp) sticks out there in the hands of people who don't know how to handle them -- who constantly run around with sharp sticks and who might trip accidentally or on purpose while I'm standing on a subway platform (even though there are no, as in zero, subways or subway platforms in Louisiana) -- so, if we spend millions or even billions on a "sharp stick" buyback platform, it should exponentially reduce the chance that I (precious me) will be the recipient (intended or unintended) of a sharp stick to the eye -- even though the chance of that happening is already close to zero. Sounds like a great use of taxpayer to me:D

Now look, I've read William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and you'll only get my sharpened stick when you pry it from my cold dead fingers, or, if you agree to buy as many as I can supply, at exorbitant rates...
 
What percentage of criminals and would-be criminals are turning their guns in?

That will answer the question as to if it is making us any safer.
 
I think in the future if this trend continues special with places doing no questions asked. Where going to see guns being stolen just so they can be turned in for quick easy cash with no strings attached.

All the criminal has to do is steal 3-4 guns and they will make on average 500-1000 dollars and they don't even have to worry about getting into trouble.

I think gun buy backs are a terrible idea and do not work.
 
In a local forum, people that were at the gun buyback made a few good deals. Apparently, there was a huge turnout of gun buyers and turn-ins had a four hour wait time. One person said an older woman standing ahead of him had 4 M1 garands. He tried to convince her to sell but refused. Kinda breaks your heart.
 
If it was so successful, why wouldn't they do it with other items of concern?

Say, knives. Or sharpened screwdrivers. Hey, it's a popular street weapon.

Or illegal drugs.

Or Ford Pintos.

Nah, it's just photo OP BS, so that everyone can feel good they've taken some guns off the street.

How about, just for kicks, aggressively prosecuting felons found in possession of guns. Get the criminals who carry guns illegally off the street?

In Los Angeles county, for example, the District Attorney's Office frequently rejects those cases, and the US Attorney's office in LA isn't keen on them either.
 
You forgot one Gary, and that is Waste a Lot of Taxpayer Money!

I was going to mention that, but lately the trend seems to be to get charitable organizations or corporations like Target to donate money or gift cards. Still, your point is valid, I'm sure that there is something more productive that could be done with that money.
 
King 5 reports not all police agencies destroy guns seized by police or turned in by private citizens. Guess what they do with them...?

W. Washington police, sheriff's depts. in business of selling guns | KING5.com Seattle


And you'll notice how they tried to spin that story. The one instance where guns were sold in violation of the law concerned a police officer. Who was caught and is now in prison.

I'd like to ask this reporter how many cars seized by the police are crushed vs. being sold? Or how much money is burned up vs. being used to fund equipment? Or if when the government seizes someone's house or business, if they bull doze the building and just sell the vacant lot?

When someone is killed by a train, do they melt down just the engine or the entire train?

I think I know the answer.
 
These programs do help gun safety "When" a club organizes collecting all the old rusty junk and turns it in and uses the money to train more new youth shooters or buys more good guns for the youth to shoot.
 
I know this thread is a month old but a friend sent me this and I thought it really applys here.

Very practical and useful information...
Participating in a gun buy back because you believe that the criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you believe that the neighbors have too many kids.
 
I think they do serve a good purpose. Since, like all gov't programs, they have to apply equally to everyone, it is easy to come up w/ scenarios where only dirtbags come out ahead. However, there are TONS of households out there with a gun, but no one in the home is knowledgable about it. This of the shotgun in the closet or the SNL in the nightstand and the person who put it there is dead or otherwise left the family. If I am a single parent and I know there is a gun in the house and don't know a thing about it, don't know enough about them to try and sell at a decent price, the buy-back is the best alternative. And that person did not just sell or give the gun to a guy down the block with no background check. Either way, they gun now cannot be stolen and used by a dirtbag and is no longer a danger to those in the home. I can come up with lots of situations where a buy-back is the most responsible way to get a gun out of the house.
 
I think they do serve a good purpose. Since, like all gov't programs, they have to apply equally to everyone, it is easy to come up w/ scenarios where only dirtbags come out ahead. However, there are TONS of households out there with a gun, but no one in the home is knowledgable about it. This of the shotgun in the closet or the SNL in the nightstand and the person who put it there is dead or otherwise left the family. If I am a single parent and I know there is a gun in the house and don't know a thing about it, don't know enough about them to try and sell at a decent price, the buy-back is the best alternative. And that person did not just sell or give the gun to a guy down the block with no background check. Either way, they gun now cannot be stolen and used by a dirtbag and is no longer a danger to those in the home. I can come up with lots of situations where a buy-back is the most responsible way to get a gun out of the house.

I'd half way agree that it does give the unqualified operator of an arm the chance to offload it before it leaps out of the closet and wipes em out ....
really though .. the same can be accomplished by directing them to a LGS and get an honest deal out of it for everyone.
 
"Well, someone drank the kool ade. "

I don't always drink Koolade my friends, but when I do, it's with a vodka chaser.

Lots of ways to look at the issue. Sometimes we forget that avid shooters such as we on this forum, who are competent owners and operators of firearms, are a minority of the firearm owners out there.
 
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