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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t most gun-slinging criminals in DC poor? The government should be able to buy these weapons from them, and maybe the criminals would even kill off some of their own to get the guns for cash. Worth a try. [/quote] You clearly don’t understand this world. Drug addicts are poor and still find money. A clean gun is also worth less than $500 on the street and buy backs pay less than that, and in the form of gift cards (groceries). Buy backs measure performance on how many they buy. Not reduction in crime because as it turns out guns are just a tool and not the root cause of the problem. DC periodically has buy backs. Doesn’t matter. There’s also no correlation or causation on guns and crime because again that isn’t the problem. On our block, most of the block is armed. We haven’t killed each other. Crime is zero.[/quote]
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