Horns for Guns

[rosetree]

Even if this gets a few guns off the streets, it's a good idea!
Why not express the positive of music over the negative of violence....

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/plan_swaps_sounds_of_gunfire_f.html

[mightyradgumbo]

Even if this gets a few guns off the streets, it's a good idea!
Why not express the positive of music over the negative of violence....

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/plan_swaps_sounds_of_gunfire_f.html

I agree wholeheartedly RT but most of the people posting off the article (on nola.com's bored) don't so I had to post a venomous little retort.

[drdennis]

I agree wholeheartedly RT but most of the people posting off the article (on nola.com's bored) don't so I had to post a venomous little retort.

while the concept is good, gun exchange programs have never worked and never will. if a kid is that willing to surrender his/her gun, he/she probably was not much of a criminal threat to begin with. or the gun(s) being surrendered are non functional.

as for handing out thousands of dollars of horns and cameras... that money is better spent in the public schools' music/art programs and after-school programs.

just my $0.02.

[Papins]

Whatever my opinion is; I hope this works.

[mightyradgumbo]

while the concept is good, gun exchange programs have never worked and never will. if a kid is that willing to surrender his/her gun, he/she probably was not much of a criminal threat to begin with. or the gun(s) being surrendered are non functional.

as for handing out thousands of dollars of horns and cameras... that money is better spent in the public schools' music/art programs and after-school programs.

just my $0.02.

While that is agreed that the money is better spent on the aforementioned programs, this is a non-profit and a church so the funds obtained are raised through donations for that program. They can't go giving the money to the public school systems. If the gun is surrendered, it is off the streets. If one or two guns are surrendered then it is one or two less.

As the reverend said in the article, the gun is really the "symbolic" part of this. It is getting kids involved in programs that are virtually disappearing before our eyes in the public schools. Programs that you mention have literally disappeared in every state in the country. That is the biggest shame of it all.

[rosetree]

while the concept is good, gun exchange programs have never worked and never will. if a kid is that willing to surrender his/her gun, he/she probably was not much of a criminal threat to begin with. or the gun(s) being surrendered are non functional.

as for handing out thousands of dollars of horns and cameras... that money is better spent in the public schools' music/art programs and after-school programs.

just my $0.02.

A gun is a gun is a gun....the kid might not be the criminal threat, but the gun might be.