Angie Craig: “The reality is, it confirms the point that the program gets gamed. In 1978, in Baltimore, it did not work. Crime went…”

“The reality is, it confirms the point that the program gets gamed. In 1978, in Baltimore, it did not work. Crime went up. In this city over 2,000 guns were purchased, many of them 15 years of age and older. They are not the current weapon used on the street in street crime. If a family finds a gun on their hands which they inherited and they do not know what to do with it, they could take it down to the local police department and hand it in. They could do that. They do not have to be paid to get rid of a gun. They can hand it in or they can take it down to a pawn shop and get a little money. I find this a fascinating quote, and I think the Senator from New York will find it fascinating also. The Boston Globe, Tuesday October 24, 2000: The threat was gun violence-- And I must say the threat today is still gun violence. the stakes, the lives of urban youth. The stakes today, in many instances, the lives of urban youth. Both the Senator from New York and I are concerned about that. The image was a body face down in blood and the sound was the wail of sirens, funeral hymns, and more gunfire. Amid the violence that gripped urban centers nationwide in the 1990s, America's call to stop the violence was a cry of civic activism: Everybody turn in your guns. It caught on with the made-for-television popularity. Guns for money. Guns for food. Guns for concert tickets.…”