D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has a great idea. She wants to spend $50 million of taxpayer money... your money... to fund "gun buybacks" nationwide.
But there's a big problem with that old idea: The federal government already tried subsidizing gun buybacks during the Clinton administration. And in 2001, they stopped funding gun buybacks because "the results of gun buybacks are minimal." That's what the Department of Housing and Urban Development said, not me. They don't work.
Now Norton wants to more than triple the funding, from $15 million to $50 million. It was a waste of time and money before... so tripling the waste of taxpayer dollars will only make it a three-times-more-expensive failure.
If Delegate Eleanor Norton is really serious about reducing violent crime, I can think of a lot of cops, investigators, prosecutors and prisons that could use the money. Even if she doesn't want your money to go where it could help, you shouldn't let her waste it where everyone knows it won't.
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