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The term, "gun buy back" is puzzling. The government never owned the firearms in the first place so they can't possibly be buying them back. The City of Dallas, Texas is hosting a "gun buy back" event on August 15th. Such events occur in many cities around the country every year. Residents turn in their firearms in exchange for money or something of monetary value. At the Dallas event, residents who turn in their unloaded, operational firearm will be compensated with a $50 grocery card. Anti-gun cities claim that such programs, "get guns off the street." In fact, these programs exploit poor people by offering money or food cards in exchange for a device that could very well save their lives or the lives of their children. Let's face it. Known criminals are not lining up at City Hall, showing their identification and turning in their weapons exchange for $50 worth of groceries. The very city that cannot protect its people from criminals seeks to disarm its citizens in exchange for fifty bucks. Only a government bureaucrat could come up with such an idea. What's to stop any criminal from purchasing a firearm for cheap at the so-called "gun buy back?" A criminal might be able to pick something up for $100 -- that's double what the city wants to pay. As is always the case with any government program, "gun buy backs" has no chance of achieving its intended goal. Just like Social Security and Medicare, when you put your trust in the government to take care of you, you wind up short-changed. Jennifer Freeman
is Executive Director and co-founder of Liberty Belles, a grass-roots
organization dedicated to restoring and preserving the Second Amendment.
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