What would it take for
you to trade in your gun?
In LosAngeles the
mayor decided not to wait until May to hold their annual anonymous gun buy-back
program. During the previous buy-back held last May, the police collected 1,700
guns. In exchange the anonymous donors received a $100 grocery gift card for
each gun and a $200 grocery gift card for each assault rifle. This December
more than 2000 more guns were turned in.
In other news a list of
gun owners was made public in a newspaper story and this has angered many gun
owners. I imagine the information in the article could be used like the
websites that help you locate registered sex offenders in your neighborhood,
just substitute registered gun owners.
On FaceBook a while
back a mother (my nephew’s wife) shared her angst over a first invitation to a
play date for one of my great nieces and included that if she found out that
the parents of her daughter’s friend kept guns in their home it would be her
one and only play date with that friend.
Another FB friend asked
me if I remembered a student who was shot in the eye by a BB gun by his
brother. I did remember and although it didn’t put his eye out it did damage
his cornea and permanently (negatively) effect his vision.
In Connecticut a mother
was shot with her own gun and killed by her adult son.
What would it take for
you to trade in your gun?
Obviously its not so much the caliber of the weapon but the caliber of the people who own the guns that we should be concerned with. There are plenty of folks who go off half-cocked or get some weird ideas jammed in their cranial chambers. We need to adjust our sights and take stock of who should have a weapon before we pull the wrong trigger.
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