THE Gun Thread

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Houston is instituting a voluntary buyback. https://abc13.com/houston-gun-buyback-pr.../12082688/ The odds of it reducing mass shootings and suicides... low the odds of it reducing homicides... 0% the odds of it boosting someone's political mechanizations 100%.  Now I think I remember in NZ a mandatory buyback happening.... that seemed to reduce gun violence overall. That would bring me to a conclusion that anyone willing to turn over their broken and unwanted guns is much more likely to have the ability to maintain the guns, secure the guns, and not use the guns illegally. Why have voluntary buybacks other than election material?

NZ’s programme wasn’t a buyback in the usual sense. It was more of an amnesty plan so people could hand in recently outlawed types of weapons before they were charged with illegal possession. It did almost nothing to reduce gun offenses. 

In general, gun buybacks are going to be much more effective if they occur after a country has a gun registry already in place.

Boru