In today’s time, why would you want to disarm yourself? The Chicago Tribune on Saturday December 14th., ran this headline, “Chicago police collect guns in exchange for gift cards ahead of holidays.”
The timing of the Chicago Police Department’s two gun turn-ins Saturday was intentional.
During the late days of December around Christmas and New Year’s Eve, when schools are shut down and offices sit mostly empty, many people spend more time at home. Lots of folks also visit the homes of relatives this time of year.
Thus during the holidays, many have more chances to stumble upon guns kept at home — guns their owners may have even forgotten about, said Glen Brooks, director of community policing for the department.
“There’s more people home. More people have an opportunity to find those forgotten weapons,” Brooks said Saturday morning at a church in Englewood where one of the turn-ins took place. “We want to give people an opportunity to make their homes and their communities as safe as possible.”
The other turn-in, held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. like the one in Englewood, was at the House of Hope in Pullman. Brooks said the department’s next turn-ins will be in May, right before the summer.
“With the crime rate in Chicago, why in the world would anyone want to practically give away their only means of protection?”, said Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, and avid Second Amendment supporter from his centrally based National Office in Harrisom, Arkansas. “When I see these gun buy backs, and the foolish people turning in their firearms, I don’t understand their thinking. Number one, I don’t know any firearm you can purchase for $100 other than maybe a BB gun, and secondly, do these people fear themselves? These people are fooled into believing they are doing a great service to their city by disarming themselves. I would imagine that most people who buy a firearm are responsible law-abiding citizens, but they are being brainwashed into believing that firearms kill people. Firearms don’t kill anyone, it’s the screwball behind the trigger that kills someone. You see on the news sometimes when an intoxicated driver plows into a vehicle full of children, killing them, do you say you plan on selling your vehicle for a fraction of what it’s worth because some screwball killed a family while driving drunk? Of course not, that would be silly! Yet our government and Mainstream Media have some people fooled into believing that their firearm is going to kill someone. Pretty soon, the only people that will be armed will be criminals. When someone breaks into your home in the middle of the night, think about that firearm you sold for a lousy $100.”
