Cold Wind Through Hell: Bloomberg’s The Trace Says Gun Buybacks Don’t Reduce “Gun Violence”

By Robert Farago

Police Trade Cash For Thousands of Guns Each Year. But Experts Say It Does Little to Stem Violence. Holy common sense, Batman! Billionaire anti-ballistic bully boy Michael Bloombergs anti-gun agitprop generation machine, The Trace, has an article that rips gun buybacks a new one. Specifically . . .

There’s no evidence that gun buybacks actually curb gun violence. Though the events have become ubiquitous in the U.S. since the ’90s, they’re coupled with a number of academic studies that pointedly demonstrate the ways that buybacks fail to reduce crime. “[Studies show that] the guns you get back are nonfunctioning, that we’re paying money and we’re not getting real benefits,” Ralph Fascitelli, the president of Washington CeaseFire, a Seattle-based gun safety organization, tells The Trace. “They’re just feel-good things that don’t do much real good.”

Well I’ll be damned. The article doesn’t contain a quote from ONE supporter of “gun buybacks.” In fact, the article raises all the issues that TTAG’s been banging on about for years, save the fact that the “no questions asked” events create a government-sponsored black market for stolen guns. Check this out:

The “no questions asked” policy …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns