Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel announced a $250,000 fund to support church and community sponsored gun buyback programs in Chicago. This plan comes in the wake of Chicago’s already stringent regulations on gun stores, including an “assault weapons” ban and a “violence tax” on guns and ammunition.
Similar programs have been initiated in various cities in California, Arizona, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey. And while the number of weapons exchanged for cash cards varied depending on the city, statistics show that in all cases, these buy back programs have mostly failed to reduce gun violence. In a city like Chicago, where there have been 2,439 shooting victims this year alone, it doesn’t sound like a place you want to live and be unarmed.
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Elected by dead people. Another Chicago election.
Fix your own states violence and when you do that you may have something the American people will listen to you yankee !
What a deal!
waste of money….not his so he doesn’t give a sh*t…..
Pos
ill turn in my bb and pellets guns for a good price
i though that city is BROKE
I bet all the criminals are gonna flock to the buyback centers…they are so eager to give up their guns…no wonder Chicago is so screwed up with all these stupid career politicians running things.
Disarming citizens DO NOT make them safer. Getting and KEEPING violent PEOPLE off the streets makes everyone safer. Libtards can’t get this simple fact through their thick know-it-all heads.
Right the thugs on the streets are going to up their
peices for a couple bucks and the law bieding people sure aren’t going to give up their protection