Gun buyback nets 9 weapons...Five of them came from one cause-and-effect challenged supporter who thinks turning in his guns will get rid of illegal ones.
Nine guns. But the "buyback" wasn't a failure.
"This whole disarmament thing wasn’t to really buy guns back," Muhammad said. “It was about having young men come together to settle their differences instead of shooting at each other from their car windows."They never meant to do what they said they were trying to do. They actually wanted to do something else, and that's how their success should be measured. OK, then. So did you get young men to settle their differences without shooting at each other from their car windows? How many? Nine?
All for One Tuscaloosa offered $25 for each gun that was turned in.OK, I'm doing the math here. Times nine, that's $225. So what the...?
[Police Chief Ken] Swindle said he appreciates such efforts to solve problems that the police department deals with daily. To demonstrate support for Saturday’s event, the department contributed $1,000 from its Safe Neighborhoods campaign to help All for One Tuscaloosa pay for the guns they collected.Hey, way to make effective use of resources, Chief Swindler...uh...Swindle. But then again, it's not your money, is it?
Still, this wasn't a total failure. Based on results, the "authorized journalists" considered the event newsworthy.
UPDATE:
I have some resources I use to verify nonprofit status of organizations, and curiously, "All for One Tuscaloosa" yields no results on any of them. So I have to wonder just who the Chief gave the thousand bucks to.
If it was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference or the Nation of Islam study group, wouldn't that be a violation of the prohibition against "respecting an establishment of religion" that the ACLU is soiling their red diapers over any time some village wants to put a donated manger in front of City Hall at Christmas? And if it came from the "Safe Neighborhoods" fund, does that mean federal plunder was involved?
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Swindle sounds like the kind of guy with whom I'd like to negotiate a business deal.
The chief's last name tells the whole story. You centered the picture perfectly David.....
Gee, how many people committed a federal crime today? Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
congress can't make a law respecting an establishment of religion, not sure about Alabama's constitution.
“This whole disarmament thing wasn’t to really buy guns back," Muhammad said. “It was about having young men come together to settle their differences instead of shooting at each other from their car windows."
WOW, so we take away their guns, then the suicide bombers "come together" and settle their differences? I trust the nation of islam about as far as I can fly...and last time I checked....
AT least these bunch of stolen gun buyers say they'll return any stolen, more then most, and more then Cleveland does. I'm sure they don't try very hard to find the owners, but they say they try.
Sutton said the disarmament was the first of four that will be held throughout the county.
Sure makes me feel safe, to know that our "leaders" are finally calling it what it is.
establishing a GLOBAL COMMUNITY? That sounds swell.
People just can't see the big picture, filled with death at the hands of a government and slavery for those they spare.
History.
Doomed.
Repeating.
God help us.
Can we do one of these for a fund raiser? I mean I have seen these buy backs in the news for as little as $50 cash. We could raffle off first choice, second choice etc. and make a mint.vktec
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