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For a few hours on a sunny yet brisk Saturday, San Francisco police officers accepted 100 guns from about 80 people in the city's second "Gifts for Guns" event. The first event in July brought in 117 handguns and 2 shotguns.
The idea is to make the streets seem a little safer when the city's murder rate has risen in recent years — San Francisco has had at least 89 homicides so far this year.
This story warms your heart and makes you happy until you realize how pointless it is. If someone is planning to kill their spouse or is an insane serial killer that pisses on himself in dark alleys they are not going to be persuaded to trade in their guns for a gift card to Home Depot. The people that trade in guns will be people that have no need for them. So I don't get it. What am I missing?
1 comment:
Those who have no need for a gun are exactly who should be turning them in for the gift card. These guns are removed and thus potentially saving the life of a child who found the gun to play with or someone stealing them from the home of a gun owner.
Fact is, if we had better gun laws, these guns wouldn't have to be rounded up. For every 117 handguns brought in, there are probably three times that still at home within the same area. It's a lame attempt at making people believe something is really being done about the crime issue.
If judges would stop slapping wrists and start forcing criminals to do hard time, they might think twice about doing the crime. Our justice system has been so corrupted so much that many of the criminals have more rights than the victims.
Those spouses who are intent on killing their mate have other means to end a relationship - a gun is unimportant. Serial killers also don't necessarily use guns all the time to kill their prey.
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