Sgt. Pat Harris says: "This is just an opportunity for citizens to dispose of these items on their own free will."
As opposed to what, Sarge?
Still, this is helpful--it gives us a quick and authoritiative reference to cite:
According to Virginia Beach Police, gun buybacks create crime.
That's a darn-near perfect sound bite.
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Sunday's paper said political terrorism in Zimbabwe continues. A man hid in the dark listening to Mugabe supporters beating his brother. "I couldn't do anything because those guys were carrying guns."
'Nuff said?
Let me see if I have this right, according to Harris there are 27,393 gunshot children every year, of which 5,478.75 die. If we were to assume an even distribution among all the states, which we know is not the case, that would be 547.875 shot with
109.575 dying in each state each year.
I think I would like her to cite the study that shows this. Not that I don't trust her, but I don't.
Because as everybody who has studied any of this knows that many more children die from each of the following causes at a much higher rate than die of gunshot; swimming pools, 5 gallon buckets, car crashes, little league baseball. So, if the death rate for those things exceed the gunshot death rate, and we know they do, why are there any children left? And for that matter, how could we not see in every community in the nation and endless stream of child funerals?
I think Harris is not exactly honest.
The Kellerman study again? Even Kellerman has disowned that unscientific piece of propaganda.
The U.S. death and injury rate by gun is extremely low relative to the number of guns in private hands. And extremely low relative to violent crime rate by ANY method in countries with stricter gun control.
Virginia Beach will arrest you for swearing in public; they're a family resort city (they think). They wanted to put face recognition surveillance cameras on every corner of the oceanfront strip to catch wanted criminals, but I think the outcry against Big Brother was too loud. They probably just have ordinary live feeds to police now.
I see they're trying other ways. They don't need my tourist dollars, then.
Oh, yes. The newspaper has an ad for a company buying gold jewelry and scrap gold, since the price is so high (or the dollar is so low, relative to gold). They make a BIG deal of "ARMED SECURITY ON PREMISES."
THEY get it.
And Va. Beach, having Oceana Master Jet Base, the Norfol naval base, Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base, Fort Story and Little Creek Amphib Base, home of all but one of the Navy SEAL teams... they're afraid of guns?
I have to wonder why they didn't just send the terrified little old lady off to the local gun dealer when she called to find out how to get rid of her husbands old war guns?
THey wouldn't possibly want to acquire any of those for free now would they?
How can it be a buyback if they never owned or sold the firearms in the first place?
All I want to know is when do the Police turn theirs in? If they are so dangerous, they can't possibly want to be liable in case their children get ahold of their service firearms. And, another thing, why isn't anyone commenting on the story? Surely I can't be the "only one" commenting!
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