Voluntary Gun Buybacks Are the Best This Country Is Going to

Voluntary Gun Buybacks Are the Best This Country Is Going to Get
Esquire
2 hrs ago
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These programs exist already, but they should feature more prominently in our response to the epidemic. Citizens should be offered the opportunity to take their guns out of circulation if they feel the situation in the United States has gotten out of control.
After another week where the violence at the heart of the American experiment came to the fore, culminating in yet another American mass murder where one citizen killed eight others and then himself in the space of a couple of minutes, it may be time to address the fact that, according to the 2018 Small Arms Survey, the United States has more than 390 million guns in circulation. That's more civilian-owned firearms than people who live here. That's 45 percent of the world's civilian-owned firearms, all in one country. And we've got the mass death—murders and suicides and accidental tragedies—to prove it.

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