Seattle officials announcing gun buyback program

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Seattle officials announcing gun buyback program

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and other city leaders called a news conference Tuesday to announce a gun safety program.

It would buy guns back from owners to reduce the number of firearms in the community.

The buyback program would be sponsored by local businesses, including online retailer Amazon.

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kyook 4 months, 1 week ago

Leave it to Seattle to be at the forefront of the accelerated program for the death of the second amendment.

Have they not seen the results of the most restrictive gun policies in other major cities in the country?

I'll just bet that the criminal elements with the illegally possessed weapons are lining up in droves for this one.

The Seattle Times should just go ahead and publish the names and addresses of all those patriots who turn in their guns.

I wonder just how cheaply the people who participate in this program are willing to sell their rights for. Cops: Pssst...hey buddy, we'll give you $20 if you'll let us search your house without a warrant...it'll make the neighborhood safer...we promise.

Sheesh....

Chuck 4 months, 1 week ago

Given that Seattle is THE city which caused the election of our latest Governor, it's past time to write your reps and make sure they'll stand against state-wide versions of nonsensical ideas like this when said proposals invariably come to the capital for debate.

After all, it's not like we can count on this particular newspaper to inform us of such debates in a timely enough manner that we, the people, will have a chance to participate.

lonedog3 4 months, 1 week ago

let's see how many gang members line up to turn in their guns.

Dudleydoright 4 months, 1 week ago

That would be zero Joe. These feel good measures do nothing to reduce crime. Like "zero tolerance" policies in our schools they are there for one reason to cover someones rear end.

Rebelrouser 4 months, 1 week ago

These buy back efforts are like a bad rash spreading. There will lots more of them and it will accomplish nothing but many sheep will willfully go to slaughter. Calif. has had two of these buy back programs in the last couple weeks.

lonedog3 4 months, 1 week ago

what it will do is increase crime since the sheep will be unarmed and like our schools, theaters and all other "gun free zones" nothing more than soft targets for the criminals that still have guns.

kyook 4 months, 1 week ago

I read one report that there is an estimated 310 million guns in the U.S., basically about one for each man, woman and child in the country. The 2011 population of Seattle is estimated at about 620,000.

If this kind of touchy-feely effort only manages to take a few hundred guns out of the hands of a few starry eyed law abiding liberals living in a dreamland where they believe the criminal element is going to go along with this paid confiscation program and the end result is going to accomplish anything more than a spit-in-the-ocean result then they are sadly mistaken. I would like to know where/when the precedent was set that indicates that this will be successful.

davebugg 4 months, 1 week ago

In order to receive proper credit so all can know about who these generous, low-information donors are, the Seattle PI should publish their names for all to see. That way everyone can know whose house is "safe" to visit, and we can all celebrate their desire to serve the needs of the government.

Chuck 4 months, 1 week ago

But why spend the money when we've got a Governor who's itching to ban them anyway?

With supporters in both houses in Olympia, and full weight of the media in the three west-side counties that elected him, it's only a matter of time before Inslee attempts to shove California-style firearms regulations down our throats.

And how much safer are they down there for the effort? LOL

davebugg 4 months, 1 week ago

Inslee may be skittish to take any drastic actions with regard to bans. After all, it was his vote for the Clinton "assault weapons" ban which, as a single issue, saw him soundly thrashed in his run for re-election against Doc Hastings. And while he may be the liberals darling, the constituency which supports gun bans is much smaller than those who are opposed. As a practical example, one only needs to look at the overwhelming loss suffered by the initiative which wanted a requirement for gun owners to lock up their guns.

If Inslee and the democrats wouldn't suffer any repercussions, they would ban guns on the first day Inslee took office. You may be right, Chuck, and I am not discounting your opinion one bit, but there are some practical issues at work here. Plus our state's Constitution is far more specific about the right to own guns than the federal Constitution, so the fight to craft any type of ban would be difficult.

Chuck 4 months, 1 week ago

After which he moved over to the west-side, got himself elected, and kept bad-mouthing all of us over here in flyover country ever since.

Inslee's only voter majorities were on the west side of the Cascades.

Given that, the only thing that could stop that megalomaniac would be a march by a more left-leaning pro-gun group. Like the Microsoft shooting team, or the Seattle chapter of the "Pink Pistols."

But it's not like we'll ever get anything more out of that man than the occasional lip service, and only then when his handlers tell him he has to.

davebugg 4 months, 1 week ago

Yes, he is a political prostitute... he goes to whatever constituency will have him. However, his constituency is also made up of a goodly number of democrats who share the same feelings as republicans when it comes to the right to keep and bear arms, including those of the semi-automatic, evil-looking variety, which use standard capacity magazines (30 rounds).

Inslee and his cohorts can try to ban whatever they want, but I doubt that such legislation would pass through both houses; and if it did, there would be an initiative immediately hitting the streets that would gather the signatures necessary to overturn such a hoplophobic law. That, in addition to the lawsuits which would be put into motion to challenge such silly and punitive legislation.