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Buyback won’t Stop Crime, but May Prevent Tragedy
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Website: http://libertyparkpress.com
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Gun buyback programs, such as a one being proposed by the San Antonio City Council, aren’t the answer to America’s — or even San Antonio’s — gun problem. Whether we admit it or not, we have a gun problem. Never mind the political rhetoric, just focus on the body count. According to Gun Violence Archive, a D.C.-based not-for-profit group that fact-checks and logs information on gun-related violence, we’re up to 9,721 deaths nationwide as of early last week, not including suicides. |
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| 1) The term "buy back" is bogus. One who has never owned something cannot buy it "back". 2) Laws affecting fundamental rights, even peripherally, cannot be justified by what they "may" accomplish. They must serve a "compelling government interest", be narrow in scope, and affect the exercise of the right as minimally as possible. But the prerequisite for even their consideration is that there must be solid evidence that if enacted they will achieve their purported purpose. So-called "buy back" events are none of the above. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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