Linkarooni - how do you "buy back" something that you've never owned in the first place??
St. Louis police board nixes gun buyback program with tie vote
By Jeremy Kohler
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/20/2008
St. Louis — The Board of Police Commissioners on Wednesday shot down Chief Daniel Isom's request to fund a repeat of last year's gun buyback that took more than 500 firearms off the street.
The board took up the matter after one of its members, Mayor Francis Slay, left early from its monthly meeting.
Slay had supported the one-day buyback, but was gone before the vote. In an unusual turn, the remaining members then deadlocked 2-2 on whether to set aside $57,500 in seized drug money to give people an incentive to hand over guns anonymously and with no questions asked.
I love some of the quotes in the article, like this one:
But board President Chris Goodson said he was against the idea because last year's buyback didn't prevent this year's rising murder rate.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
Well, lets be fair. It may not prevent a rising murder rate, but it does give the criminals a way to dispose of their murder weapons with no questions asked (and make a few bucks on the side). That is something.
