In a 10 year period Texas cops sold off over 10,000 guns to the public.

[Nevilledog]

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Alain Stephens
@AlainStephens
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Jun 3, 2022
1/People shook at the behavior of the cops in #Uvalde Texas.

What if I told you they don't really care about gun crime?

In fact, what if I told you that in a 10 year period Texas cops sold off over 10,000 guns to the public. 💸

http://specials.texasstandard.org/blowback/
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Alain Stephens
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2/This includes the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Departments do this to offset militarization costs, using the money to buy more tactical equipment and newer weapons for themselves...

Weapons they claim will aid in their battle against things like "active shooters"....
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12:27 PM · Jun 3, 2022

http://specials.texasstandard.org/blowback/

In the last year, residents of Fort Worth, Texas, have watched as shootings spiked across the city.

Month after month, new victims emerged: a woman killed in a mall parking lot, two toddlers accidentally shot outside a Chuck E. Cheese’s, seven shot in a drive-by in a residential neighborhood. The 2016 murder rate was at a 15-year high.

The city’s Police Department had a plan. “In an effort to get firearms off the streets, the Fort Worth Police Department is implementing a gun buyback program,” the department announced May 18.

On a hot summer day six weeks later, nearly a dozen officers set up shop in an Aldi parking lot, offering a $50 gift card to anyone who turned in a gun. It was the third buyback the department conducted since the program’s announcement.

However, the police had competition. Skirting the edges of the parking lot, a group of men stood with homemade cardboard signs outbidding the police.

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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Because of course, NONE of those would actually be used to shoot a cop, right?

Stupid mf'ers.

[krispos42]

2. If the police destroyed otherwise-legal guns...

...Then gun makers would profit.instead of the police.

People again seemed to surprised that guns are legal.

[Wounded Bear]

3. I wonder how many of the guns they "buy back" had been sold by them to start...

[MagickMuffin]

4. Good ol Cowtown, Besty Price (R) was Mayor at the time

FUCK YOUR GUN FREE ZONE

This is what we are dealing with.

Would he give a shit if that little girl standing there with her sign saying "Sell my daddy your gun for 100$?

Would her daddy care?




These people have a gun fetish that isn't healthy.

[Amishman]

5. Putting that in perspective, that is equal to 5 hours of gun sales nationally

10,000 sounds like a lot of guns hitting the market, but it is nothing compared to the river of guns pouring into our society every day.

20 million sold last year. That works out to around 2200 guns every hour.

The amount of guns in this country is hard to even comprehend.