Gun buyback nets 9 weapons...Five of them came from one cause-and-effect challenged supporter who thinks turning in his guns will get rid of illegal ones.
Nine guns. But the "buyback" wasn't a failure.
"This whole disarmament thing wasn’t to really buy guns back," Muhammad said. “It was about having young men come together to settle their differences instead of shooting at each other from their car windows."They never meant to do what they said they were trying to do. They actually wanted to do something else, and that's how their success should be measured. OK, then. So did you get young men to settle their differences without shooting at each other from their car windows? How many? Nine?
All for One Tuscaloosa offered $25 for each gun that was turned in.OK, I'm doing the math here. Times nine, that's $225. So what the...?
[Police Chief Ken] Swindle said he appreciates such efforts to solve problems that the police department deals with daily. To demonstrate support for Saturday’s event, the department contributed $1,000 from its Safe Neighborhoods campaign to help All for One Tuscaloosa pay for the guns they collected.Hey, way to make effective use of resources, Chief Swindler...uh...Swindle. But then again, it's not your money, is it?
Still, this wasn't a total failure. Based on results, the "authorized journalists" considered the event newsworthy.
UPDATE:
I have some resources I use to verify nonprofit status of organizations, and curiously, "All for One Tuscaloosa" yields no results on any of them. So I have to wonder just who the Chief gave the thousand bucks to.
If it was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference or the Nation of Islam study group, wouldn't that be a violation of the prohibition against "respecting an establishment of religion" that the ACLU is soiling their red diapers over any time some village wants to put a donated manger in front of City Hall at Christmas? And if it came from the "Safe Neighborhoods" fund, does that mean federal plunder was involved?