Experts Agree – Gun Buybacks Are Useless and Do Nothing to Prevent Crime

Experts Agree – Gun Buybacks Are Useless and Do Nothing to Prevent Crime:

"Today, the Boston Globe has published an article on the ineffectiveness of these programs.

Here is are some of the highlights,

“Unfortunately, there is no compelling evidence that gun buyback programs are an effective crime-fighting tool or that they reduce the rates of crime,’’ said Jon Vernick, co-director of Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research…

 …Gun buyback programs have been a staple of urban crime-fighting measures across the country for more than two decades, but a growing body of research has concluded they are ineffective, at best.

A 2003 study of buyback programs nationwide by Anthony Braga, a crime specialist who is now a professor at Rutgers University, found that the programs had no impact on gun crime or gun-related injuries, and that the programs do not target guns highly likely to be used in violence…"