Americans Starving - Guns For Food Takes Advantage!

[user111]

 Thomas Watkins, Associated Press Writer – 40 mins ago AP – Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Jeff Gordon, right, and colleagues examine and process weapons Sunday, … LOS ANGELES – A program to exchange guns for gifts brought in a record number of weapons this year as residents hit hard by the economy look under the bed and in closets to find items to trade for groceries.

The annual Gifts for Guns program ended Sunday in Compton, a working class city south of Los Angeles that has long struggled with gun and gang violence. In a program similar to ones in New York and San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department allows residents to anonymously relinquish firearms in return for $100 gift cards for Ralphs supermarkets, Target department stores or Best Buy electronics stores.

Turning in assault rifles yields double that amount.

In years past, Target and Best Buy were the cards of choice, with residents wanting presents for the holidays.

This year, most asked for the supermarket cards, said sheriff's Sgt. Byron Woods.

"People just don't have the money to buy the food these days," he said.

Authorities said Sunday that a record 965 firearms and two hand grenades were handed in during the two weekends the program was in operation. That's more than in any other year and easily eclipses last year's total of 387 guns collected over both weekends.

Compton's violent history has been chronicled in such gangsta rap albums as N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton." But Woods said most of the residents who turned in weapons were "family people."

"One guy said he had just got laid off from his job," Woods said. "He turned in five guns and said it would really help him to put food on the family's table."

Gun owners dropped their weapons off at a local grocery store parking lot. Deputies checked the weapons to see whether they had been used in crimes, then destroyed them.

The annual drive started in 2005 after a spike in killings, though the murder rate has since dropped.

One man brought in a Soviet-era semiautomatic carbine.

"If that got into the wrong hands of gangbangers, they could kill several people within minutes," Woods said. "Our biggest fear is a house getting burglarized and these guns getting taken."

The drive also has yielded antique weapons.

Gift cards for the guns exchange were paid mostly by Los Angeles County, but the three companies involved and the city of Compton, which contracts the county for police protection, also donated funds.

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    guns being destroyed 

[DireWolf]

Hunger as I have said before is quite the motivation for doing most anything, as the food and water become more scarce this type of program will expand beyond most beliefs. It is too bad that those who partake of such a program don't realize that the food they get is going to be GMO.

[lazarus]

Here is better angle on the guns for food idea. (a heart warming video)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8DZXEoMWq0

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Cashier:  "Welcome to McTakeYourGuns may I help you?"

Customer:  "I'd like a double GMO burger with cheese and a soda filled with aspartame."

Cashier:  "That'll be one pistol or box of ammo please."     

[Rock]

Gifts for Guns Program Brings in Record Weapon Haul

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,463172,00.html

People are starving according to the article

[lazarus]

Gifts for Guns Program Brings in Record Weapon Haul

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,463172,00.html

People are starving according to the article

Fox News: We report. You die.

[B_brave]

Cashier:  "Welcome to McTakeYourGuns may I help you?"

Customer:  "I'd like a double GMO burger with cheese and a soda filled with aspartame."

Cashier:  "That'll be one pistol or box of ammo please."     

Haha, nice

[lazarus]

I agree with were your going with that video but alot of people out there dont know how to hunt,They were raised in big cities or just never learned.I was raised to know how to hunt,when I talk about it at work almost everyone gets that look like Im doing something wrong or useless.They have stripped away alot of peoples instinct to prey on animals for food and made it into something alot of people find useless.They turn a gun into a weapon alone instead of an actual survival tool.It more than likely never occurred to any of them to use the gun to obtain food.Its sad.

You are right. It is sad. And not everybody can or is near a place where they can hunt.