{"id":62375,"date":"2015-10-19T11:56:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62375"},"modified":"2015-10-19T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:56:56","slug":"emanuel-is-out-of-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62375","title":{"rendered":"Emanuel is out of ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last month, we wrote<\/a> about Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel who announced that his solution for gun violence in his city was for more gun control legislation – you know, the thing that Chicago has most of. They’ve run legal gun dealers out of the city and in effect made gun ownership illegal, so it’s a little hard to imagine what more gun control they could write in that city. So after another particularly bloody weekend, the mayor announced that he’ll have a gun buy-back program with the spare 1\/4 million bucks that the city doesn’t have. From the Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Buyback programs are a way to involve the community in getting guns off the streets.<\/p>\n

However, experts are unsure how much of a dent on street violence such programs can make. Researchers have found that instead of the automatic weapons criminals use, buyback campaigns tend to net hunting rifles and old, dusty revolvers.<\/p>\n

“They make for good photo images,” Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem Oriented Policing at the University of Wisconsin’s law school, told the Cincinnati Inquirer in 2013. “But gun buyback programs recover such a small percentage of guns that it’s not likely to make much impact.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or, like Los Angeles<\/a>, they can buy back some expended Stinger tubes and proclaim that they have taken a rocket launcher off the streets instead of admitting that they were conned.<\/p>\n

Experts say gun policy, such as requirements for background checks and limits to certain high-caliber weapons, are more effective than buybacks, but only by a margin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, except that all of the shooters in the most recent high-profile shootings all passed background checks and none of them used any “high caliber” weapons, whatever the hell that means. I think they mean “high capacity” referring to the number of rounds that a weapon can fire in a short period of time without reloading, because there have been no crimes committed with large caliber weapons…ever.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Andy11M for the link. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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