Thursday, August 24, 2006

The Wrong Hands

The Kent County Sheriff's Department is announcing a gun buy-back program to keep weapons out of the wrong hands...

"It's basically designed for those guns that are unregistered or unlicensed. If it's a gun that was involved in a shooting or crime, then the amnesty is not going to cover that area," Hess said.
So, then, it's not going to "keep weapons out of the wrong hands," is it?

I love the way these people contradict themselves, and the "authorized journalists" are either too dumb or complicit to make that connection.

2 comments:

E. David Quammen said...

Not to mention, that the majority of guns turned in are junkers. Or, most definitely NOT the types that are used in crime. They know this, and admit this, yet they still keep doing it....

Am I mistaken, or is not that supposed to be the definition of insanity? 'Doing the same thing over and over - expecting different results'? Hmmmmmm....

Michael Price said...

Ok, so you can take your gun along to a police station and basically throw it away without getting arrested, unless the gun was involved in a "shooting or a crime" note the wording. So what happens if the gun was involved in a crime before you bought it? And haven't all unregistered guns been involved in the "crime" of unrecorded sales? Aren't guns bought from street dealers the most likely to be involved in crime?
This is not insanity, they are not doing the same thing over and over again and expected a different result. They are expected that removing guns will be further associated with safety, which is what happened all the other times this was tried. Making people actually safe is not the goal.