Emanuel is out of ideas
Last month, we wrote about Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel who announced that his solution for gun violence in his city was for more gun control legislation – you know, the thing that Chicago has most of. They’ve run legal gun dealers out of the city and in effect made gun ownership illegal, so it’s a little hard to imagine what more gun control they could write in that city. So after another particularly bloody weekend, the mayor announced that he’ll have a gun buy-back program with the spare 1/4 million bucks that the city doesn’t have. From the Associated Press;
Buyback programs are a way to involve the community in getting guns off the streets.
However, experts are unsure how much of a dent on street violence such programs can make. Researchers have found that instead of the automatic weapons criminals use, buyback campaigns tend to net hunting rifles and old, dusty revolvers.
“They make for good photo images,” Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem Oriented Policing at the University of Wisconsin’s law school, told the Cincinnati Inquirer in 2013. “But gun buyback programs recover such a small percentage of guns that it’s not likely to make much impact.”
Or, like Los Angeles, they can buy back some expended Stinger tubes and proclaim that they have taken a rocket launcher off the streets instead of admitting that they were conned.
Experts say gun policy, such as requirements for background checks and limits to certain high-caliber weapons, are more effective than buybacks, but only by a margin.
Yeah, except that all of the shooters in the most recent high-profile shootings all passed background checks and none of them used any “high caliber” weapons, whatever the hell that means. I think they mean “high capacity” referring to the number of rounds that a weapon can fire in a short period of time without reloading, because there have been no crimes committed with large caliber weapons…ever.
Thanks to Andy11M for the link.
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Yeah, doing the same thing again and again while expecting different results, that’s one definition of insanity. But hey, disarm the law-abiding people in every way you can and you embolden the criminals, Chicago and every other gun-banning locale prove it!
You can’t expect much more out of the queer bathhouse “babe”
Illinois has a problem. No that one. Not that one or that or those other ones. I’m talking about the budget. It’s so bad that lottery winners of $600 or more are issued IOUs now. Some residents who like to play are now buying tickets out of state. This gun buy-back program is much, much better than the lottery. It’s not a gamble. The idiots will pay cash on the barrel head for any rusty POS turned in to them.
Absolutely correct. You could also turn in those POS weapons and go buy better ones off the street with the cash.
That’s exactly what I’d do, and I would very loudly let the cops know exactly what I’m doing, too. I’ve got at least three guns that I’ve paid less than $100 for. If they give you $250 per gun, you could go out and buy a decent AR for almost that amount, or a Springfield XD .45 and a BUNCH of ammo… Hmmm, it’s only 10 hours to Chicago…
$100 each…. I’m sure folks who ponied up $500-1000 for nice guns and ARs will be thrilled to get such a great price for their legitimate guns and turn ’em in now.
What? No burly-man carrying a MA-Deuce knocking off the bank? As far as high capacity goes, it seems that regardless of the type of weapon used, most shooters were firing single shots. This last little bastard got them all in a bunch on the floor. If they had all rushed him except the one guy more would probably have survived. Would the fact someone had to reload made a difference if everyone is cowering?
Yeah, cause everyone robs a bank with a 20mm cannon, just like Clint Eastwood did in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
… or a tank (Kelly’s Heros)
Someone asked what I thought of Mayor Rahmbo. After I quit laughing, I started laughing again. Glad I don’t live there.
I’ve always called him Rahmbutt….
thats what obozo calls him lol
Until they face reality and start dealing with the gangs and the drugs, they are going to have shootings. It’s just that simple. And that hard.
Jonn, to many if not most libidiots anything with a bigger bore than a BB gun is a “large caliber weapon”.
Just saw a Motley Fool article today making a big point about the ‘extremely high velocity’ bullets doing so much more damage than “normal hunting rifles” – which they take to mean are chambered in .22 Long Rifle. Guess none of them are familiar with the effectiveness and muzzle velocity of, say, a .30-06. Me, given a choice, I’d much rather be hit by a 5.56 than some .30 caliber bullet at the same velocity.
Wait. . . what?? I thought The Motley Fool was supposed to deal with finances, stocks, and investing? Not gun control.
Well, it’s not like I ever read them too often anyway. If they go down the same drains as the NYT, no big loss.
Hmmmm…do these assclowns realize that a .308 is the same round as a 7.62mm for all intents and purposes?
Just in case anyone else wants to go kill some synapses with the stupidity of calling a .22 LR a “hunting cartridge”…
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/10/18/what-are-assault-rifles-which-companies-make-them.aspx
My thought: The Motley Fool is being paid by someone (Bloomberg & company maybe?) to push Ruger stocks down…
I’m reading a book about the rise and fall of the 3rd riech spelling is off a little but this turd is a moronic at best. and he should have never been elected to mayor but as we all know they got what they wanted Lol
I wonder if by ‘high caliber’ they’re looking to ban Fifty cals again. Remember when Los Angeles did that, and they tried to suggest that criminals were using Barret M82A1s against cops and shit like that? So Barret decided to stop selling or repairing the fifty caliber weapons they had sold thus far to the LAPD SWAT?
Fun times.
Every print ad for Barret I’ve ever seen has a statement that they refuse to do business with any Government entity in CA, period!
The only crime I know of committed with a Barrett was a Mexican drug cartel shot down a Mexican Army chopper using a Barrett they got from Operation Fast and Furious.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gunwalker-guns-linked-to-helicopter-shooting/
I am still waiting for the “knife buyback” I have a bunch of old dull kitchen cutlery that I would love to get rid of.
I did not know he had any ideas to begin with.
Just saying.
Meth, heroin, pot and LSD are illegal to have and use in Chicago, that eliminated it from there, didn’t it? /sarc
What’s next, is Rahm the Bomb gonna propose background checks for firearm purchases?
I was thinking more along the lines of sex shop purchases.
This guy is using the “Mini-Obummer” strategy, much like Hillary Clinton.
I reckon he’ll start putting dead fish in mailboxes again to show his displeasure…
All because he’s too proud to admit that his view of the world is wrong and doesn’t work.
Someone needs to tell the Rahm that he’s nekkid.
He looks like he’s about to cry, his world is SO f**ked up.
Once again, both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms.
Where have I heard that before? Yes, I definitely remember reading that somewhere.
Sooner or later, the revolving doors on prisons will be addressed. The judiciary’s cozy-cozy and untouchablity (yes,I just concocted that word) will be visited. The fact is that attys know who the tough judges are and who the softies are. Hell, everone inside the courthouse knows too, not to mention those who make regular appearances, including LEOs. Who doesn’t know? The peoples, that’s who. And the media are in cahoots simply by failing to report sentences and naming the judges. Then there’s the follow-up that’s needed. Often, a judge will mete out a tough sentence and then, nice and quietly, reconsider the sentence and reduce it. Games. Games. More games. The thing is, many dealers and shooters do short bits and they are the community’s next shooters and shooting victims. In other words, one can predict with tremendous accuracy who will be shot or do a shooting. If they remain in the community, just keep the meat wagon gassed. They’re next.
Yeah, why should an elected Prosecutor put a goblin in front of a Hanging Judge when he could put him in front of “Let ’em loose Bruce” and have them as repeat customers which fluff up their conviction rates?
It’s going to get worse really quick too.
His best booty buddy is ready to turn a few hundred thousand criminals loose on the streets of the US in the spirit of fighting the racism.
You know, the racism that blacks are unequally represented in the prison population. Also I am certain that many illegal immigrants with criminal records will be among the thousands released.
They call it judicial reform because it sounds better than the old Monopoly get out of jail free card !!!
This just doesn’t look good for any of these liberal enclaves, but the people in those cities have been voting for them for decades so they are getting exactly what they wanted.
Libs are so incredibly stupid I wonder how they remember to breathe.
Do like I’ve done a couple of times when rhamobolo does stupid shit. Send him an email. I usually “talk” to him like I’m trying to explain a simple solution to a first grader.
Go to bottom of page, click on contact us, then click on the feedback link.
http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor.html/
Lead by example you fucking PRICK! Sell your bodyguards weapons and release them from their duty. Fucking hippocrite!!!
I am so glad the Army brought me to Washington and I only have to go to that horrible state to see my family and friends
Why do these Pols say shit like “I’m angry” or Obozo was “visibly angry”. IDGAF if you’re pissed. What does that have to do with anything? My underwear was binding, I was ANGRY! and that asshole that cut me off in traffic, I was angry! So frickin what. Go get a massage Rhambo, if you’re still angry after the happy ending ask for a refund.
Amen… and amen!
Rahm might as well gin up stuff about guns. He sure as heck doesn’t want any discussions about the public pensions train wreck or his handpicked CEO of Chicago Public Schools being investigated for taking kickbacks.
The only thing I ever agreed with thay he tried to institute was grading teachers and getting rid of tenure….
Of course that resulted in a city wide teachers union strike for a month or so…at which point he capitulated.
Looks like Rahm’s got another problem on his radar too. The hippie libs at the Guardian are filing an lawsuit to bring to light practices Chicago’s Homan Square detention/interrogation facility: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands
Apparently the Rahm Regime greatly stepped up use of this facility and they thought they could do it without anyone noticing.
Love me some good ol’ fashioned liberal infighting:-D
Not bad, but I wonder if they’re going after Rahmbo, or are they trying to make up another “Sock it to the Man” anti-police campaign? Since when hasn’t Chicago been corrupt as hell?
He probably will beat it, but I enjoy it whenever libs have a PC dick-measuring contest…takes some of the heat off the good guys for a little while.