December 21, 2012, 9:08 p.m.
SAN DIEGO — An hour before (click here) the fifth annual gun buyback was set to begin Friday, a line of cars already snaked around a large empty lot and out into the street.
There was a monetary incentive — $50 for a rifle or shotgun, $100 for a handgun or assault weapon. But there was also another motive, represented by the commonly heard phrase "in the wrong hands."
"I don't need this shotgun sitting around and, with the break-ins in our neighborhood, I don't want it ending up in the wrong hands," said Bill Stowers, 59, an unemployed Teamster, who swapped his .12-gauge for a $50 gift card.
In Southern California, as well as elsewhere in the nation, the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last week has given new urgency to existing plans for weapon buyback programs....
Americans love their children. They have a social conscience to protect others within the Social Contract. They want to do the right thing. It works. They don't want their guns. Most are intimidated by them. I guarantee you that. Let's get the guns off the street. Now. Americans will trust the government if they are educated to the reason for a call to remove guns from their neighborhoods.
Additionally.
The police departments taking in these guns need to guarantee the guns will be DISMANTLED. No different than car dealers taking in 'clunkers' had to destroy the engine. The people need to see the dismantled guns on displace to know the guns they handed in will never kill again.
TRUST but VERIFY.
Seriously.
Additionally.
The police departments taking in these guns need to guarantee the guns will be DISMANTLED. No different than car dealers taking in 'clunkers' had to destroy the engine. The people need to see the dismantled guns on displace to know the guns they handed in will never kill again.
TRUST but VERIFY.
Seriously.
