BALTIMORE, MD -- One day after a mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, Baltimore police collected more than 400 guns during the "Goods For Guns" initiative in the city.
A total of 461 guns were collected in exchange for approximately $50,000 in gift certificates to a local grocery chain, according to a release from City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young's office.
Young announced the initiative Wednesday at City Hall. On his Twitter account, Young said Saturday that planning for the program began before Thanksgiving, and that it took "a true team effort."
In a news release, Young said: "Today, I heard from a diverse array of people who just wanted to remove firearms from their homes. These people, both young and old, told me that they feared their guns winding up in the wrong hands and just wanted to avoid that possibility altogether."
Residents exchanged unwanted firearms for $100 gift certificates for Klein's ShopRite.
Klein's ShopRite Vice President Howard Klein said, "We did something meaningful on a day when a lot of people are experiencing terrible loss and tragedy. You can’t put a price tag on an event like this and we can’t wait to do it again."
The results of the program come amid reaction to a school shooting in Newtown, CT, where reports indicate a lone gunman murdered 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday morning. The gunman reportedly started the rampage by shooting his mother at the home they shared in Newtown, and ended it by shooting himself.
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The program, operated by UpLift Solutions, was modeled after a similar initiative in Philadelphia, according to the release.
Officers from the Baltimore City Police Department collected the firearms, which were transported to the Northeast District. The release said the guns will be melted down.
In Prince George's County, Laurel police collected more than 150 weapons Saturday.
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In this forum, conservatives use words like despicable to describe those of the other side. But the liberals use terms like KKK, trailer park, hitler, or tin foil hats.
"I think I'd better check the water supply in the bunker because glasnost was yesterday's cornflakes, bay-bee!" "Look at your sorry self dance. Stumbling. Fumbling. Passive aggressive. Do you study history much or snuggle up with end-times, fascist websites?" "Then, you could write your next screed about quadroons and octoroons and further explore your fraction skills. Really ignorant, Lorna." "Everybody else is stupid and you are smart." "I'd rather have a home invasion than a door-to-door visit from one of this crowd. Why has it taken so long for these goofballs to out like this?" "Speak to each other in meta-language. "Shh, Lorna, they might be logging our IP addresses." "Yikes, Buck, discipline. I've got to stay focused, retain, retain." "2. Say with a straight face that a firearm you may own is not just a piece of slick mechanism that is just another boy-toy that goes with your four-wheeler, your pick-up truck, your Ravens stuff and deals out Death to anybody who Invades your castle to violate and sell into human bondage you and your family." "the vocabulary that we use to discuss our differences has become contaminated by online discussion conducted by amateurs " 1ke
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The NRA is the largest organization in the world with dues paying members. There are over 4 million members. One thing to refine, is a comment that Bart made is that gun clubs automatically enroll you in the NRA. That is a little bit off. The correct way of stating it is many gun clubs will not let you join unless you are an NRA member. If you are not a member of the NRA, they will process your membership on your behalf. As a life member of the NRA, when I join one of those clubs, I show my membership card and they take off the $25 NRA fee.
Explain why your comments have been deleted and your account was suspended? Please explain that Joeblob/Sancez/joey? Hmm. I do notice that you generally disappear on Friday evening and then show back up on Monday. Is that because you on work release for DWI? That is the normal punishment. Joe on the Juice and get caught? Eh, Joe/Sanchez? Fess up joey. PS Those were some pretty accurate descriptions.
I am glad you captured the Worst of Ike. I did call Arbutus Town Crier a goofball. And his old lady. Proud of it. Glad to see you can still copy and paste. When you are ready for your lesson in using bit.ly or tinyurl, let me know.
Of course, those marauding groups of Amish gang-bangers are going to be a threat in the near future. But one interesting statistic was from an FBI report several years ago. They tracked where firearms used in crime came from. A little more than 1% came from gun shows, But gun shows make great news, and are good for grandstanding politicians. But the bottom line is that gun sales at gun shows are a non-issue
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/two-firefighters-shot-killed-while-responding-webster-n-163105823.html Oh, and the movie theater ushers... and the guards at the malls... And anywhere else folks gather. Hope they are all perfect shots - that collateral damage thing gets a bit messy.
Will Kasemeyer listen? Kasemeyer 2 years now attempted to criminalize anyone caught on any state property with any kind of knife including a folding pocket knife that many people carry daily. Will he listen? If you believe he will you are forever the optimist.
"Name calling occurs only in the face of non sequitors and non-responses." And then from 1ke. "I think I'd better check the water supply in the bunker because glasnost was yesterday's cornflakes, bay-bee!" "Look at your sorry self dance. Stumbling. Fumbling. Passive aggressive. Do you study history much or snuggle up with end-times, fascist websites?" "Then, you could write your next screed about quadroons and octoroons and further explore your fraction skills. Really ignorant, Lorna." "Everybody else is stupid and you are smart." "I'd rather have a home invasion than a door-to-door visit from one of this crowd. Why has it taken so long for these goofballs to out like this?" "Speak to each other in meta-language. "Shh, Lorna, they might be logging our IP addresses." "Yikes, Buck, discipline. I've got to stay focused, retain, retain." "2. Say with a straight face that a firearm you may own is not just a piece of slick mechanism that is just another boy-toy that goes with your four-wheeler, your pick-up truck, your Ravens stuff and deals out Death to anybody who Invades your castle to violate and sell into human bondage you and your family." "the vocabulary that we use to discuss our differences has become contaminated by online discussion conducted by amateurs " 1ke
"When you resort to pulling out the attack card, you lose."
I also believe guns are a tool. If this guy who killed the kids did not have a rifle, he would have used a pipe bomb, fertilizer bomb, chain saw, etc As history proved, expiration of the Clinton Gun Ban did not result in a rise in crime or murders.
The COPS in Schools (CIS) grant program is designed to help law enforcement agencies hire new, additional school resource officers (SROs) to engage in community policing in and around primary and secondary schools. CIS provides an incentive for law enforcement agencies to build collaborative partnerships with the school community and to use community policing efforts to combat school violence. COPS announced the first round of the CIS program in April 1999, and the most recent in July 2005. COPS has awarded in excess of $753 million http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/default.asp?Item=54 http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Publications/e09042494.PDF