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-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

The Price of Safety

by Hal_10000

Eeesh.

Oakland’s recent gun buyback was especially ridiculous.  The police offered up to $250 for a gun “no questions asked, no ID required.” The first people in line?  Two gun dealers from Reno with 60 cheap handguns.  Fortunately the buyback did manage to get some guns off the street, too bad they were turned in by a bunch of senior citizens from an assisted living facility.  Whew, the streets are safe at last.

Gun buybacks have to be one the dumbest ideas yet to emerge from the liberal mind.  Less than one out of every 60,000 guns in this country is used to commit a crime. At $250 a pop, that means preventing one gun crime through buybacks is going to cost $15 million.

I’ll tell you what, Oakland. Here’s a way to quadruple your money. Keep the guns. Give me half the money—$7.5 million. And I’ll work to prevent two crimes.

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