I am reading this article and having a difficult time containing my laughter. I blogged just a little while ago about the new blog I have added to my daily reading. You'll find the article in the "What Am I Reading?" section, but this one had that extra element that I found amusing. The guy is spot on. He wrote of a gun buyback program in Oakland:
The Oakland buyback was especially absurd because of the high price offered: $250. Why didn’t anyone running the program think to look at the price of a new gun? In fact, the first two people in line at one of the three buyback locations were gun dealers with 60 firearms packed in the trunk of their cars.
One wonders why the police even bothered to buy the guns from Oakland residents. Why not buy directly from gun manufacturers?
And this:
An Oakland gun buyback is like trying to drain the Pacific — every bucket of water you take out is instantly replaced.
Here's another bit of logic that I never considered when thinking or talking about gun buyback programs:
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.
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.
Logic obviously escapes people sometimes. I wonder how some actually make it to old age! Read the article, be amused.
Oakland's Gun Buyback Misfires
3 comments:
W8.
U hate acronyms and netspeak?
LOL! R U kidding?
Srsly?
O.
Srry.
BTW, FWIW, maybe u need this:
http://www.noslang.com/index.php
YMMV.
L8r.
Annie, I had to laugh at your reply! :D
I almost deleted it, but that wouldn't be very libertarian of me.
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