How does removing guns from the hands of law-abiding citizens make our cities more safe?

It won't

The bad guys prefer unarmed victims!!.

When seconds matter calling 911 and asking the bad guy to wait is not a viable option.

Better to have a gun and not need it than to need it and not have it!!!

**Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens.**

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Gun buy back programs actually do serve some purpose!

people that no longer want to own a gun can sell it to the program, with 100% assurance that the gun will never be used to commit a crime. Also it gives owners of dangerously damaged firearms a place to get rid of the gun where it will not be used again. Some of the guns that get turned in to these programs would suffer a dangerous malfunction, possibly injuring or killing the operator of the firearm, if they were ever used.

So, I must disagree with you, there is a good reason to support gun buy back programs.

The true danger comes when legislatures attempt to ban certain firearms, accessories for firearms or features of firearms by passing laws. These bans (including parts of the NY SAFE act) will not work to get firearms with these "dangerous features" out of the hands of people that plan to commit violent crimes with them. Law abiding citizens are left with two options, get rid of an otherwise very useful tool that they spent a lot of money to acquire, or become a "felon" for maintaining ownership of a tool that was in common use before the legislature declared ownership of that tool illegal.

The laws should always be crafted to kedep the balance of power in favor of the law abiding citizens, putting the criminal element of society at a disadvantage.

It makes it much safer for the police to abuse a unarmed citizen than a armed one. And they make money of those buy backs from some of the guns they resale to there friends as collectors items. Be surprised at the number of old but valuable guns that get bought back at those sales.

Gun buy back are mostly hype.

BUT limiting guns or at the very least having a universal registration and penalties for not knowing what happened to the gun might help.

Back in the late 90's my department and the ATF decided to make an effort to trace guns we seized in crimes. Violent gun crime was rampant. We had about 900 murders in my city in a year every year in the mid 90's

UNlike on TV a gun trace is very hard and does not often lead to the real owner.

You see most states do not have any type of gun registration. My state A real gun dealer has to keep records but they cannot send the info in to ATF unless they go out of business. I(n the most part the records are not computerized. Many smaller and more fiercely independant dealers will actually try to subvert a look up by keeping the records in a jumble and some even keep them on toilet paper.

So the ATF can contact the maker, if still in business, with the serial number and they can tell the ATF where it was sent. Then the atf must send an agent to the gun dealer to hand search the record.

Major companies like Gander Mt. or WalMart have their own records computerized but most dealer do not.

Then the ATF knows who bought it. When contacted almost all say they sold, lost or had the gun stolen.

Individuals do no have to, nor do many do, identify who they sold to. It also appeared that many who claim lost or stolen did not report or if they did did not have the serial numbers to add to the police computer system.

The finding where interesting. Remember these were only guns seized in crimes, not turn ins.

Of the guns seized 87% were sold originally to legitimate citizens.

Less than 20% of those were reported stolen by serial number. 40% claimed lost or stolen with no serial number and the rest had no idea, often it was family of dead or senile people, what happened to the guns.

The other 13% could not be traced. Makers out of business with terrible or no records or possible illegally obtained from foreign sources, who knows?

I can say that one peopluar among gangbnager brand out of Hieligh florids made 9mm hi capacity guns, often mistaken for UZIS by the public scared by the things, so that the serial number could easily be drilled out and the gun, with a filed seer, could easily be converted to full auto by anyone with a file and a small screw driver.

First of all, nobody is removing guns from the hands of law abiding citizens.

Gun buyback programs are people choosing to get rid of a weapon they feel may be a safety issue or they just do not want anymore. It prevents them from being stolen from criminals.

It makes ignorant activists with irrational fears of inanimate objects feel better without having any actual effect on crime that would have happened anyway, but apparently that's all that matters. So your grandpa's 100-year-old Derringer is finally off the street, and you got $100 of taxpayer money for it. I know I feel better.

Nobody is removing guns from law abiding citizens..only non- law abiding citizens

and a buyback program isn't removal either..they're basically selling them

How do you think thugs get their guns? They steal them from people, or people they know.

Just look at countries like Germany or Canada... there is hardly no gun violence. Compare that to Oakland where every day someone is shot down on the streets and you will see a direct correlation between guns and violence.

It's too late to get rid of all the guns.

NOBODY wants to take away any guns through federal law other than weapons intended for mass killings, e.g. assault rifles, machine guns and hand grenades. IT will happn again. Maybe this time it will be at a playground or a nursery school. I love my .38 and don't worry somebody wants to take it away because they don't.