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	Gun BuyBack Flop

daltonsbriefs

2-25-2008 8:06 AM

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daltonsbriefs says:

In what can only be called classic liberalism, a city buys back cheap guns to create more security, and gun dealers profit. That's called capitalism.

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<P>Imagine that instead of guns, the Oakland police decided, for whatever 
strange reason, to buy back sneakers. The idea of a gun buyback is to reduce the 
supply of guns in Oakland. Do you think that a sneaker buyback program would 
reduce the number of people wearing sneakers in Oakland? Of course not. </p> <P>All that would happen is that people would reach into the back of their 
closet and sell the police a bunch of old, tired, stinky sneakers. </p> <P>Gun buybacks won't reduce the number of guns in Oakland. In fact, buybacks 
may increase the number of guns in Oakland. </P></SPAN></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/02/gun-buyback-mis.html">Oakland's recent gun buyback was especially ridiculous.&nbsp; The police offered 
up to $250 for a gun <SPAN id=iba2_siteCss><SPAN id=iba2_siteCss>"no questions 
asked, no ID required."&nbsp; The first people in line?&nbsp; Two gun dealers 
from Reno with 60 cheap handguns.&nbsp; Fortunately the buyback did manage to 
get some guns off the street, too bad they were turned in by a bunch of senior 
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