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Even in Canada, gun control doesn't seem too popular.

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If a preponderance of evidence shows gun buybacks are ineffective and costly, it invites an important question: why are they so popular with local governments?

Owners are legal gun owners and those who arent legal gun owners are going -- if they use guns for the wrong reason, theres going to be a deterrent effect. >> gun makers are liable like everybody else. >> but theres different tracks to this because youve got to get the guns out there back in and there are millions. >> thats not going to happen. >> you can do buyback programs. >> and since australia did in 1996 they havent had another mass shooting so yeah, you can do voluntary. >> you have to do...

Level apartments, basement level apartments, they cant put themselves up on stilts. they cant bring in the contractors and put their building up on jacks. they often own a very expensive condominium which has condominiums above it which werent affected by the storm in the same way. we would have liked to have seen the utilities, things like that raised. that would have given our residents the ability to apply for the grant. >> it strikes me this argument about the funding level is central to thi...

To send. >> two sides are looking for meaningful contributions. the fact there was a gun buy-back program, the day after christmas, 1500 rifles and handguns were taken back by police in exchange for groceries and a cash back program there in los angeles. hugely successful. meanwhile, arizonas attorney general is proposes a voluntary programs where schools would arm at least one staff member. meanwhile, theres a gun group in utah offers a free concealed weapons course to public schoolteachers tod...

What we saw as a country in newtown, and, mayor, i want to ask you, i know in los angeles you have joined the u.s. conference of mayors in signing this letter asking the president and congress to seek stronger gun control laws and you have also moved up a gun buyback program in l.a. from may until the day of achristmas, so coming up in just five days from now. as we all look at as country for meaningful contributions, thats one thing we witnessed in places around the country where buyback progra...

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