SPEAK OUT: LA Gun Buyback Draws Strong Response; Should Gwinnett Do the Same?
The annual event is moved up because of the Sandy Hook shooting. Share your thoughts.
There were a lot of long lines in Los Angeles on the day after Christmas, but not all of them were at shopping malls. The nation's second-largest city held its annual gun buyback event, moving it up from Mother's Day in response to the recent Sandy Hook Elementary shooting tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. And the yield was strong. The Los Angeles Times reported that the event, which was held at the historic Coliseum and in Van Nuys, surpassed the 1,673 guns collected in 2011. The incentive was gift cards to Ralphs, a prominent Southern California supermarket chain that is owned by Kroger. The city gave gift cards worth up to $100 for handguns, shotguns and rifles, and up to $200 for assault weapons. In one case, organizers pulled 22 …
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ed marshall
4:07 pm on Thursday, December 27, 2012
Let's create more unarmed victims!! Yaaaayy!!! Then we can have a massacre in LA too. The gun buy back is the dumbest thing EVER! Its meant to get illegal guns off the streets not for law abiding citizens to give up their's! more ›