Eight days after the Douglas High School slaughter in Parkland, Florida, NRA bigwigs Wayne Lapierre and Dana Loesch spewed a bunch of damn nonsense today at the annual CPAC Convention of Crazies.I've had cases of love that were just infatuation, but this HATE I feel for them is the real thing!
This bloody bastard lobbying group accepts no responsibility for anything, and blames everyone but themselves -- it's mental health, and gun-free zones, and media coverage, and the FBI, and the Air Force, and Democrats, and yada yada yada.
Our Largemouth Ass of a fake president followed their lead by blaming the carnage on gun-free zones, video games and movies, as he called for 100-150 armed guards per school.
(Regarding their fixation on gun-free zones as a problem: Do the odds of being bitten by a shark actually increase in places with no sharks?)
It's always the same old bullshit lies with these heinous fuckwits.
Proportionally, America has the same level of mental illness, gun-free zones, video games, movies, and media as any other high-income, developed nation. But compared with France, Canada, Norway, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, et al, our level of gun violence and gun death is disproportionately high -- off-the-charts high.Why? We're no more violent or homicidal than any other place. The difference is we have more guns, by far, than any other place. America has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but per capita, Americans own almost half the world's civilian firearms.
It's obvious. Too many guns. That's our problem. And we must start to address our problem now. It took us many years to get to this point of absurdity, and will take many years to turn things around. But no more delay -- we gotta do it.
#NowIsTheTime
#FuckTheNRA
I admittedly have too many guns & need to get rid of them, but I want them out of circulation. Was discussing this with another friend. He's in the same boat. These have value, & I really don't want to just cut them in half. Does Buster have any ideas for us?
ReplyDeleteNot sure if my dear old friend is serious or just yanking my crank a little bit, but I'll assume he or she is playing it straight. I have about one and a half ideas.
ReplyDeleteI applaud your desire to get rid of excess weaponry, but obtaining near-retail value for your unwanted guns while simultaneously taking them out of circulation (i.e. not allowing them to be resold) is basically impossible. Gun buyback programs, however, would allow you to recover some portion of your initial outlay.
A permanent federal gun buyback program would be the most effective. They've been successfully used in Australia, Argentina and Brazil. Of course, we don't have a federal program here in the good old USA. Instead, we have a hodge-podge of sporadic, short-term buyback programs run by various cities. Seattle, St. Louis, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit and Newark, N.J. have all run gun buyback programs from time to time, with modest cash payments ($100-$200) or gift cards offered for turned in weapons. Cleveland, Ohio runs an annual gun buyback program, with payment of a $100 gift card per gun.
So find a locality with a buyback program. Your relinquished weapons will be disabled and scrapped, and you'll get a small reward for your good deed. Other than that, you could try to find a recycling service which would accept guns for scrap value, which is not much. And of course the non-compensated option is to turn them in to your local police department. That would be the easiest thing to do. Your old guns would pay you nothing, except a feeling of contentment for doing a service to society.