<a href="http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/STATE/UPDATES/lat_guns990813.htm">LA Times article</a>
Some real gems in this one. To wit:
"They're not going to take guns away from hardened criminals," Tolley said, citing the alleged gunman at the Jewish Community
Center, Buford Oneal Furrow. But he said the buybacks can help educate people, and remove guns from some homes, preventing an argument from turning deadly.
and...
But in other countries, gun buybacks have been extremely effective, said Rebecca Peters, a visiting fellow at the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture in New York, a criminal justice think tank. Where they have worked well, the buybacks have been anonymous and accompanied changes in the law that ban the types of weapons to be bought.
In 1996, Australia began a yearlong, nationwide buyback of semiautomatic weapons after a shooting rampage in Tasmania that left 35 people dead. The government banned such weapons for general use, and more than 640,000 guns--about one-sixth of the guns in the nation--were retrieved, Peters said.
In 1997, the British government banned handguns after an elementary school shooting in Scotland that left 16 children dead. A
subsequent gun buyback netted 180,000 guns, Peters said.
Both of those buybacks allowed the gun owners to remain anonymous, she said. "The emphasis was on getting the guns out of circulation, on prevention," she said. "Here there is an emphasis on prosecution."
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Right as I'm eating lunch, too. Gag, retch, spew.
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A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil.
Vote Libertarian - For A Change.
Some real gems in this one. To wit:
"They're not going to take guns away from hardened criminals," Tolley said, citing the alleged gunman at the Jewish Community
Center, Buford Oneal Furrow. But he said the buybacks can help educate people, and remove guns from some homes, preventing an argument from turning deadly.
and...
But in other countries, gun buybacks have been extremely effective, said Rebecca Peters, a visiting fellow at the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture in New York, a criminal justice think tank. Where they have worked well, the buybacks have been anonymous and accompanied changes in the law that ban the types of weapons to be bought.
In 1996, Australia began a yearlong, nationwide buyback of semiautomatic weapons after a shooting rampage in Tasmania that left 35 people dead. The government banned such weapons for general use, and more than 640,000 guns--about one-sixth of the guns in the nation--were retrieved, Peters said.
In 1997, the British government banned handguns after an elementary school shooting in Scotland that left 16 children dead. A
subsequent gun buyback netted 180,000 guns, Peters said.
Both of those buybacks allowed the gun owners to remain anonymous, she said. "The emphasis was on getting the guns out of circulation, on prevention," she said. "Here there is an emphasis on prosecution."
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Right as I'm eating lunch, too. Gag, retch, spew.
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A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil.
Vote Libertarian - For A Change.