Chicago gun buyback oops

They shut down a few people who tried to do this in FL.  Too bad, I thought it was genius.

mr2tony - 2012-07-10 11:21 AM

Meulen - 2012-07-10 9:51 AM I live just outside the city.  My dad decided to use the program to unload some old broken guns for the $$$$.  When he went and stood in line he said everyone there was doing the same thing.  He talked to the cops there and they said that was all they were seeing.  They said the program was a success!, tons of guns turned in.  Unfortunately, they were all old broken guns instead of the guns they intended to get out of the hands of bad people!  LOL   How's that for a waste of tax payer cash!!!??

Yayyy let's waste taxpayer cash, use it for unintended purposes and then cheer about it! Yayyy! Here's a program that's at least TRYING to do something to curb gun violence and these idiots are playing the system, then bragging about it. Klassy, guys. KLASSY! These are the same dbags who are complaining their taxes are too high. Well, maybe now that they got some cash back they'll shut up.

If the city was serious about getting guns off the streets they would not waste the money paying for broken or antique guns.  The group followed the rules.  In the article the police even knew these guns were junk.  If anyone is to blame it's the police for accepting the decrepit guns.

I doubt many gangbangers are using a 1898 long rifle.

mr2tony - 2012-07-10 11:49 AM

TriRSquared - 2012-07-10 10:43 AM

mr2tony - 2012-07-10 11:21 AM

Meulen - 2012-07-10 9:51 AM I live just outside the city.  My dad decided to use the program to unload some old broken guns for the $$$$.  When he went and stood in line he said everyone there was doing the same thing.  He talked to the cops there and they said that was all they were seeing.  They said the program was a success!, tons of guns turned in.  Unfortunately, they were all old broken guns instead of the guns they intended to get out of the hands of bad people!  LOL   How's that for a waste of tax payer cash!!!??

Yayyy let's waste taxpayer cash, use it for unintended purposes and then cheer about it! Yayyy! Here's a program that's at least TRYING to do something to curb gun violence and these idiots are playing the system, then bragging about it. Klassy, guys. KLASSY! These are the same dbags who are complaining their taxes are too high. Well, maybe now that they got some cash back they'll shut up.

If the city was serious about getting guns off the streets they would not waste the money paying for broken or antique guns.  The group followed the rules.  In the article the police even knew these guns were junk.  If anyone is to blame it's the police for accepting the decrepit guns.

I doubt many gangbangers are using a 1898 long rifle.

And the police followed the rules, which is why they paid these guys for the crap guns they sold them. Can you at least admit that they played the system? Legally played the system, that is, but played the system nonetheless. If I somehow managed to get food stamps legally and then bragged about how I am ripping off the government, you guys would be all over me for manipulating the system and taking a handout that should be illegal and blah blah blah. But since you agree with their agenda, it's funny and creative.

If you obtained food stamps "legally" then you are not ripping off the system.  Your claim of "playing the system" would be false.

I don't think the group should be boasting about "playing the system" because they did not.  They sold junk guns to the police who accepted the junk guns. 

So why did the gov't program not have rules about the guns being in working order in order for them to be "bought back"?  Broken guns don't typically contribute to gun violence.

Meulen - 2012-07-10 9:51 AM I live just outside the city.  My dad decided to use the program to unload some old broken guns for the $$$$.  When he went and stood in line he said everyone there was doing the same thing.  He talked to the cops there and they said that was all they were seeing.  They said the program was a success!, tons of guns turned in.  Unfortunately, they were all old broken guns instead of the guns they intended to get out of the hands of bad people!  LOL   How's that for a waste of tax payer cash!!!??

Yeah, thats weird Chicago wasting money. Huh? That program is a joke like we have all sid. Only guns that get turned in don't work.

mr2tony - 2012-07-10 10:49 AM

TriRSquared - 2012-07-10 10:43 AM

mr2tony - 2012-07-10 11:21 AM

Meulen - 2012-07-10 9:51 AM I live just outside the city.  My dad decided to use the program to unload some old broken guns for the $$$$.  When he went and stood in line he said everyone there was doing the same thing.  He talked to the cops there and they said that was all they were seeing.  They said the program was a success!, tons of guns turned in.  Unfortunately, they were all old broken guns instead of the guns they intended to get out of the hands of bad people!  LOL   How's that for a waste of tax payer cash!!!??

Yayyy let's waste taxpayer cash, use it for unintended purposes and then cheer about it! Yayyy! Here's a program that's at least TRYING to do something to curb gun violence and these idiots are playing the system, then bragging about it. Klassy, guys. KLASSY! These are the same dbags who are complaining their taxes are too high. Well, maybe now that they got some cash back they'll shut up.

If the city was serious about getting guns off the streets they would not waste the money paying for broken or antique guns.  The group followed the rules.  In the article the police even knew these guns were junk.  If anyone is to blame it's the police for accepting the decrepit guns.

I doubt many gangbangers are using a 1898 long rifle.

And the police followed the rules, which is why they paid these guys for the crap guns they sold them. Can you at least admit that they played the system? Legally played the system, that is, but played the system nonetheless. If I somehow managed to get food stamps legally and then bragged about how I am ripping off the government, you guys would be all over me for manipulating the system and taking a handout that should be illegal and blah blah blah. But since you agree with their agenda, it's funny and creative.

I don't think you have a constitutional right to bare Food Stamps!

DanielG - 2012-07-10 11:16 AM

Meulen - 2012-07-10 12:12 PM I don't think you have a constitutional right to bare Food Stamps!

So they have to be covered up?

Well they, "stripped" you of the rights.......duh! LOL

I think the bigger part of the argument is that this government program won't work and that's where the waste is.  With food stamps, they do work and they help a lot of genuinely needy people.  There are also people that take advantage of them, and those loop holes should be closed up.

For the gun buyback program I don't think it works at all and in fact I think it has an opposite effect (my opinion of course) because if you take a criminal who has a "dirty" gun or a non working gun he now has a place to fence the gun with no questions asked and is given money to go buy a new illegal gun.
Then you have people like the original linked article who are taking non working guns that had very little risk of ever falling into the wrong hands or being used for malicious purposes and now they've been turned into functioning firearms that could potentially fall into the wrong hands down the road.

In Omaha they have "Gun Amnesty Day's" a few times a year where people can drop off guns with no questions asked.  They do not pay any money for the guns.  I think this is a much better way to achieve the goal that Chicago's trying to do and it doesn't cost anything.  The Omaha PD have gotten a lot of guns turned in (many that aren't working) but they also get some guns that have been traced to crimes and are fully functional.  Granted the down side is the bad guy can cleanly get rid of the evidence, but it does get a gun off the streets.

Ding ding ding!

There are a number of studies that show that these buy-back programs do nothing to decrease gun violence.  You want to take about waste?  Let's start with the government.