Mayor Daley wants to raise $1 million to buy back guns and remove them from Chicago streets, but the latest in a string of corporate fund-raisers got off to a slow start.If he ever raises the dough, I know where he can get a deal...
His utter lack of solutions and the growing obviousness as to the source of the problems is becoming clearer. As the breakdown accelerates, expect the administration to become more desperate, meaner, more dangerous. That's the way with unimaginative thugs.
I think the Hog Butcher is starting to sweat. And I think it's getting even hotter.
[Via HZ]
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Word has it that the fifty aldermen were reluctant to appropriate the funds, so the mayor suggested that they put it to a vote.
Daley won by 97 votes.
although the situation is entirely different, this is the same economic logic as the suggestion that the US should buy up and burn all of the poppy fields and heroin in afghanistan.
when you offer money for a service, you get more of that service: more gun turn-ins means more guns.
not that i mind. but who would make someone that stupid the mayor of their city?
What guns did the city sell that they want to buy back?
A cautionary note in regards to ... "not that I would mind ..."
Some guns used by criminals are stolen. I would not want to create an incentive for them to steal more guns. A debatable point would be if these are old relics being turned in by widows, yuppified offspring or if these are functioning firearms being turned in by hard core criminals.
The article does note that most of the guns turned in don't even work.
A reliable source tells me that most of the turn-ins are rusty junk, but occasionally, a real gem turns up.
Sometimes, elderly widows who have no idea what they are holding on to turn in stuff like vintage 1911’s etc. Most of the time the people collecting the guns what no idea what they are looking at, either. To them, a gun is a gun. What a shame.
If someone has a email addy for Daley I will offer to sell him one of mine for a $1,000,000.
Sorry guys, I know that sounds traitorous, but I would do it. Just think how many people I could arm with really long yard like that.
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