{"id":6787,"date":"2021-05-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2021-05-18T21:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T01:22:54","slug":"more-on-why-buybacks-are-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/more-on-why-buybacks-are-bs\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE ON WHY BUYBACKS ARE BS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the very name for something is a falsehood, it\u2019s classic \u201cearly warning.\u201d&nbsp; How can anyone \u201cbuy back\u201d that which they never owned or sold?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gun buy-backs are also a rip-off.&nbsp; $50 or $100 or a gift certificate for a pair of shoes is a poor trade to a grieving widow turning in her late husband\u2019s gun that might be worth thousands from a collector if she sold it to a legitimate gun shop, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to mention that a \u201cno questions asked\u201d&nbsp; buyback, which is common, is the perfect dumping ground for violent criminals to dispose of murder weapons that could connect them to their crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, our friends at TTAG, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/economic-study-concludes-theres-no-evidence-that-gun-buybacks-reduce-gun-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TheTruthAboutGuns.com, share evidence<\/a> which proves in addition that \u201cbuybacks\u201d don\u2019t do a damn thing to prevent crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the very name for something is a falsehood, it\u2019s classic \u201cearly warning.\u201d&nbsp; How can anyone \u201cbuy back\u201d that which they never owned or sold? Gun buy-backs are also a rip-off.&nbsp; $50 or $100 or a gift certificate for a pair of shoes is a poor trade to a grieving widow turning in her late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}