Brilliant Idea!
- Gun control advocates in Tacoma, Wash., are thinking inside the box -- literally -- with a controversial proposal to set up a gun "drop box" to encourage residents to turn in firearms, no questions asked.
The city of 203,000 has similar collection boxes for drugs, and officials say a secure, steel box can help get guns off the streets without subjecting nervous citizens to police interaction.
"The main intent and goal is just to get these weapons off the streets," Tacoma Police Chief Don Ramsdell told the
The News Tribune, stressing that the program is still in its planning stages.
That pesky police union is all over this like a wet blanket:
- Dubious critics say a box full of guns could prove tempting to criminals -- and that's if people actually took the city up on the offer.
"In other news: New Gun store for criminals opens in Tacoma called: The Drop Box," one person tweeted.
Tacoma Police Union President Sgt. Jim Barrett doubts the boxes will get much use.
"Are we really expecting these people to walk down the street to this drop box, with the gun tucked in their shorts, and drop it off?” he asked. "It doesn't seem to me to be a thought-out process as of right now."
What could possibly happen with a box full of guns?
Of course, our big thinkers figured "snitch boxes" were going to be the next big thing in solving the anemic clearance rate of homicides...which is currently flirting with the lowest level in recorded history.
Of course, our big thinkers figured "snitch boxes" were going to be the next big thing in solving the anemic clearance rate of homicides...which is currently flirting with the lowest level in recorded history.
Labels: dumb ideas, out-of-state
posted by SCC at 12:31 AM
32 Comments:
This is also a good way to dispose of a gun used in a homicide. Wipe it clean, wear a mask and drop it in the box. Evidence disposed and problem solved.
How about an Illegal Drug Drop-Off Box, since drugs are involved in at least 85% of violent crimes, you Dumb Mother Fuckers...
Stop a dude on the street with a pistol. When he goes to court, "Oh no judge I was on my way to drop it off at that gun box they got, for real". Where do these supposed best and brightest get these stupid ideas?
Just wait for it.
Vindictive wife decides her hubby's gun collection is a fair target.
Little old lady puts dead hubby's $100,000 gun collection in the drop box because she does not know anything.
I wonder what the "shrinkage" will be between the box and the storeroom?
What ever happened to the snitch boxes?
Oh, dear God, stop it.
Just stop it.
Can I put a drop box by my house? I'll take those unwanted guns and ammunition.
Every time I close my eyes, I see four broken-off bolts embedded in the sidewalk.
Car.
No worry. ATMs full of money never get dragged out of stores, either.
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Progressive Center Left thinking is a mental illness.
When you have to follow all of the rules while under a politically correct microscope, you're lucky there's any homicide clearance rate at all.
Of course, when you see people using trucks and chains to pull ATM machines out of the wall, no one would ever think of using trucks to pull these gun boxes down, would they? This idea is not just another liberal stupid idea, it is a special kind of stupid idea.
How is this going to work with linking firearms and offenders to past crimes? Will ballistics test be conducted or just melt them way like crime actual crime stats.
Tacoma, a city that can't (and won't) enforce doggie pooh pickup.
Remember when California was the land of fruits and nuts... not anymore.
Chicago has 72,840 (last count) Crosswalk Flags sitting in boxes in the basement of a building they least from Vanecko,
maybe Rahm can sell them that idea too.
Isn't there a very liquid secondary market for illegal guns in the hood? Why would I drop the gun at a box when I can sell it for some cash?
Hahahahahahaha!!!!! Sorry
Why do that? When the city has the cash for guns program yearly, you give a junk or hot gun and you get a visa money card why for free? Idiotic ideas again!
(OT) Obama pushes for a nuclear deal with terrorism nation Iran, who hate the USA, Obama throws 150 billion more of our money at them, now surprise Iran "finds" more uranium to make nuclear easy!
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/iran-says-finds-unexpectedly-high-uranium-104622948.html
This is scary, and Iran wants Israel gone, let's hope we finally get a real leader next presidential election!
Another smart idea from the Starbucks saturated state of Washington.
Then one of these mutts can toss a loaded pos gun in the box so it discharges, hitting him or some other bystander. Another innocent victim of gun violence sues the city for $$$.
"Vindictive wife decides her hubby's gun collection is a fair target.
Little old lady puts dead hubby's $100,000 gun collection in the drop box because she does not know anything.
"I wonder what the "shrinkage" will be between the box and the storeroom?"
9/12/2015 02:52:00 AM
Oh, boy, you got the range here, my man. I don't even want to go there. Too many horrible stories like this...
Honolulu PD is switching from S&W to Glock, for some reason, and is going to destroy about $650,000 worth of serviceable weapons, including 200 brand-new, still in the factory-sealed boxes. Officers were not even allowed to buy their S&W service pistol for their own use. Guns are bad, bad, bad.
...but in Milwaukee they nailed a guy federal on 55 counts of straw man handgun sales, using phony ID, etc., and he got probation because he was "an aspiring rap musician." This is exactly who you'd be looking for to help stem the flow of blood out there -- direct feed to the ER and the morgue, pop pop pop every night and people are afraid to look out the window, and he is the one who walks. Going back and forth to LA while he was out on bond, too.
People can't even drop a bottle into a garbage can and we expect them to drop a gun into a box?
The thugs turn in junk or stolen weapons get a city paid (We pay taxpayers city produces nothing), father flaky has a big ceremony and gives out fancy gift cards we paid for! Got it! Get it! Good!
>>>Anonymous said...
This is also a good way to dispose of a gun used in a homicide. Wipe it clean, wear a mask and drop it in the box. Evidence disposed and problem solved.
9/12/2015 12:39:00 AM<<<
Still there is ballistics and that would be part of the puzzle.
More likely they would toss it into the local park lagoon.
(Did they find any in Garfield Park?)
They build ATMs and put them out there with up to $100,000 in them and they are secure. Hook them up electronically so it is known as soon as a deposit is made and dispatch a unit to empty it ASAP. Then if there is a tag option to attach to the gun with name and address and the donor would get a gift card. Then it might work, a 24/7/365 gun buyback program.
Stay Safe. I would love to get one of my guns stolen out my station locker back.
Is the brain trust smarter than a box of rocks?
I have always hated stories where a widow calls the police and turns over her late husband's gun collection and gets nothing for it. They never tell her that these could be worth a lot of money and could make her life more comfortable. Then they take those guns and burn them.
That is nothing but ignorance and theft.
Anonymous said...
How is this going to work with linking firearms and offenders to past crimes? Will ballistics test be conducted or just melt them way like crime actual crime stats.
9/12/2015 10:11:00 AM
Good question! Does the department still only do a ballistic test on weapons recovered that they think may have been fired? Save tons of money but might be missing tons of information if they tested all recovered weapons dirty or cleaned. We need a vanecko or Hilliard crime lab to pick up the backlog!
"Hook them up electronically so it is known as soon as a deposit is made and dispatch a unit to empty it ASAP."
9/12/2015 06:19:00 PM
Gee. It's a brick.
Not to mind. We got an old carburetor just last week.
...and please double-bag your used cat litter.
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"I have always hated stories where a widow [goes to the bank] and turns over her late husband's [coin collection] and gets nothing for it [but face value].
"They never tell her that these could be worth a lot of money and could make her life more comfortable..." Rolls and rolls of just one particular year's silver dimes alone that were worth about $3.00 each at that time, possibly ten times that today from the date, mint mark, condition, etc.
9/13/2015 12:18:00 AM
...and Chase just removed all its coin-counting machines. Used up about two minutes of their precious time the last time I brought a bag full in proper canvas coin sack, no bottlecaps or screws or crap in there -- but it's OK if I wait a lot longer behind people with complicated transactions, minimal English, etc.
"Chase. So You Can."
Oh. Thanks for the 0.01% interest.
Instead of getting rid of the guns, get rid of the people committing crime - problem solved.
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...and Chase just removed all its coin-counting machines. Used up about two minutes of their precious time the last time I brought a bag full in proper canvas coin sack, no bottlecaps or screws or crap in there -- but it's OK if I wait a lot longer behind people with complicated transactions, minimal English, etc.
"Chase. So You Can."
Oh. Thanks for the 0.01% interest.
9/13/2015 01:33:00 PM<<<
The Credit Union last time I was there had free coin counting. They just take it into the back room out of your sight. I suppose they are trustworthy.
Stay Safe. I would love to get one of my guns stolen out my station locker back.
9/12/2015 06:19:00 PM
That reminds me of when our old station had a new janitor who was really good and liked his job. He actually cleaned the top of the lockers and found a couple of guns that were reported lost/stolen sitting on top of lockers! He got fired when he had to take medical leave for open heart surgery. The place was never really clean since.
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