A staple among the more “reasonable” gun control advocates in America is the voluntary gun turn-in or buy-back program.
Hillary Clinton has recently gone on record as a big supporter of these programs, whether they be optional or… not so optional, like in Australia.
If you had any doubt about the effectiveness of such plans, the folks in Greensboro, North Carolina were out to prove you wrong this month.
They held just such an event where they would accept any number of weapons, getting them off the streets and presumably out of the hands of criminals.
...So how did that turn out?
If you read the coverage from this Time Warner Cable News Network report it was a smashing success.Almost 1,000 people turned out and it was a glorious day to get guns off the streets.
Almost 1000 people took “A Pledge of Non-Violence” Saturday at Destiny Christian Center in Greensboro.
So that’s a big win all the way around, right?
...Police-community partnerships are a positive measure to increase public safety, but good intentions aren’t the same thing as a good (or effective) plan.
A report by Time-Warner Cable News tried to put a positive spin on things by noting that “almost 1,000 people” responded to take the pledge, leading one to believe that 1,000 firearms had been turned in, but this was hardly the case.
As evidenced by the footage accompanying the story, the gun turn-in apparently resulted in a single BB pistol and a single sheathed hunting knife being “taken off the streets...”
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