New York City Paper Calls for Gun Buy Backs

While we respect the motivations behind The Queens Courier calling for gun buy back programs, we have to wonder if such an initiative would actually have saved Kevin Miller, the unfortunate victim of recent gun crime in New York City. Buy backs could, in fact have the opposite effect than one intended.

One thing that is never made clear by the mainstream media is that these events don’t likely get guns out of criminals hands, but instead seem to make it seem as if they do to the general public. This could have the unexpected result of actually making some people inadvertently dropping their guard. And when that happens, bad things can be the result.

We would like to offer our condolences to the family of Kevin Miller, and would like to call on Mayor Mike Bloomberg to fight crime in New York City, and not try and focus so much on gun shows in other states. He is a city mayor and should be focused on things within New York City.