people who tell you they have gun buyback programs in cities all over the united states and those cities still have a violence with gun violence. i think they are one more tool than trying to get illegal guns off the street. i think that you have to give some of the young people out there that are carrying guns some type of alternative of going to jail, put them in a situation where they can see that there is a light at the end of the tunneling. thank you so much for being with us this morning. thank you. thank you for having me. coming up in the cnn newsroom a pastor calls out the religious rights saying the religious rights wants the country to live in the past. it happened while the pastor was delivering an easter sermon which was attended by the president. everyone s retirement dream is different; how we get there is not. we re americans. we work. we plan.
santa clara county, california, has had two gun buyback programs just this month. the county provided the money to exchange for the guns. last weekend, atlantic city, new jersey, their guns for cash buyback in atlantic was the second most successful in state history. the state s most success was was just held in january. we know how these programs work, right? cities and towns and police departments organize these buybacks. or sometimes it s the attorney general s office. it s always a government agency of some kind that organizes these things. in new york city there s an ongoing buyback program where you can turn in your gun to the police and get a cash reward. it takes in a few hundred begins over the course of the year now in a city of 8 million people. the threshold for participation in that in new york city is that you have to feel comfortable approaching the police with your firearm. in order to be able to hand it over to them. tomorrow, though, this weekend, in the biggest city
from camden. payment was on a sliding scale depending on the lethal potential of exactly the weapon you were turning in. gun buyback programs in the bay area, california, oakland and san francisco. oakland and san francisco collected hundreds of guns. they paid hundreds of dollars for each one of them. in brooklyn new york, in december, the police department and district attorney s office co-sponsored a gun buyback. again they got hundreds of guns off the street. baltimore, maryland, police officers traded grocery store gift cards for guns. and in los angeles, the city s gang-reduction unit sponsored a gun buyback program that brought in 2,000 weapons. orange county, new york. the sheriff s office there ran a buyback program that ran for three months state, $150 for any gun turned in, ran for three months straight. that s the haul they got. fremont, new jersey, a gun buyback. at the city s fire training facility. paying more than $150,000 in exchange of rifles and assault rifles.
newer and better gun. jack says if the intent s to retrieve legal guns from legal gun owners it probably works to the extent of disarming grandma and grandpa and all of the liberals know that these cranky old fools shouldn t be armed. car sarcasm intended. and tim p. says yes to some degree. any gun you get off the street is one less that can murder someone in the hands of a crazy person. is it enough? no. the problem is too great. eileen says yes as you you have is some grenade launchers you want to unload. otherwise it is a waste of time and money. i m with you, gun buyback programs do work. i ran a gun buyback program when i was d. a. but you never saw you anything like this one. a missile launcher turned in during a gun buyback program in seattle. one less miss is sill launcher on the street. don t you feel better now? last week we had a few laughs about the use of the washington two step. this week, four and a half
newer and better gun. jack says if the intent s to retrieve legal guns from legal gun owners it probably works to the extent of disarming grandma and grandpa and all of the liberals know that these cranky old fools shouldn t be armed. car sarcasm intended. and tim p. says yes to some degree. any gun you get off the street is one less that can murder someone in the hands of a crazy person. is it enough? no. the problem is too great. eileen says yes as you you have is some grenade launchers you want to unload. otherwise it is a waste of time and money. i m with you, gun buyback programs do work. i ran a gun buyback program when i was d. a. but you never saw you anything like this one. a missile launcher turned in during a gun buyback program in seattle. one less miss is sill launcher on the street. don t you feel better now? last week we had a few laughs about the use of the washington