A Tactic To Help Reduce The Inner-City Murder Rate

I salute those brave folks residing in the urban areas of America’s cities for their courage as they stand up against the recent explosion in senseless gun murders. We have reached a tipping point in the national epidemic of public murder. These shooters are simply cowards who need weapons to do their violence. So the answer is simply to get rid of the guns on the streets.

 In my opinion most of these weapons in the midst of the black population residential areas are RE-CYCLED GUNS! By RE-CYCLED I mean guns that have been confiscated by the police, stored in a police locker, and are later scheduled to be destroyed, but somehow later turn up on the street again for an illegal sale. These guns are NOT BEING DESTROYED and that is why there are so many weapons available on almost every street corner in the inner-city.  Remember this RE-CYCLING of guns has been going on for decades and simply did not start last week. So over a period of time a gigantic buildup of weapons remains available for re-sale.

When the guns are scheduled to be destroyed, they are trucked to a local contractor's salvage yard that has a large metal compactor. The guns are loaded into the metal compactor which then crushes them all into a small solid metal cube destined for meltdown and recycling. Whenever a cache of guns are scheduled to be destroyed an official police representative must be present as a witness to the actual destruction of the guns. The police witness then must sign official documents that attest and certify that the witness observed the actual destruction of the guns. In many states the archiving of this documentation has been very sloppy and in many instances may even be none-existent.  

Here is what community activists can and MUST do to verify that these weapons are actually destroyed, and not RE-CYCLED back onto the streets to kill again and again.

(1)Start a campaign to request access to past police documentation certifying that guns were actually destroyed.

(2)If the documentation does not include sufficient identification data (Type of weapon, caliber, model number, serial number) make an official request that this information be included with the destruction documentation.

(3)If any discrepancies are found in the documentation data, immediately start a campaign to force the police to allow a civilian from your organization to witness the destruction of any future cache of weapons. Also stipulate that sufficient notice of the event be given in advance to assure that the civilian witness is present at the destruction.

The above outline constitute the main steps to bring the business of selling RE-CYCLED guns under control and keep them off of our city streets. Finally I wish to assure all readers that RE-CYCLED guns are not the ONLY SOURCE of guns flooding the streets of our major cities, but they are a huge contributor to the problem. Every illegal weapon removed for our streets is certainly a step in the right direction.