I just heard a News Cast from WJR AM Detroit.
Turn in guns, get cash back in Detroit
July 29, 2006
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BY NAOMI R. PATTON
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
About the buyback
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Any gun can be exchanged anonymously for a voucher ranging from $50 to $200. The voucher can be redeemed at a bank. Buybacks will take place 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Here's the schedule:
• Tuesday: Detroit Police Northeastern District, 5100 E. Nevada; King David Missionary Baptist Church, 18001 Sunset.
• Wednesday: Detroit Police Southwestern District, 4700 W. Fort; Greater Apostolic Faith Temple, 4735 W. Fort.
• Thursday: Detroit Police Central District, 4747 Woodward; St. John's CME, 8715 Woodward.
• Friday: Detroit Police Western District, 1441 W. Seven Mile; City of Hope Church, 7565 W. McNichols.
• Aug. 5: Detroit Police Northwestern District, 11450 Warwick; Eastern District, 11187 Gratiot; Leland Missionary Baptist Church, 22420 Fenkell; Charity Lutheran Church, 17220 Kelly.
For information, go to: www.nationaltownwatch.org/nno.
The Detroit Police Department will launch a citywide gun buyback campaign next week.
Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings, surrounded by residents and members of the Neighborhood Service Organization Youth Initiatives Project, announced the campaign Friday.
The program will start Tuesday in conjunction with the 23rd annual National Night Out, a crime-prevention event.
Bully-Cummings said the buyback is part of the city's multilayered approach to getting guns off the streets and reducing crime.
She also cited Operation TIDE (Tactical Intelligence Driven Enforcement), a program that unites city, state and federal law enforcement agencies to identify crime patterns, and the Joshua Project, a city and state collaboration aimed at curbing gun violence in Detroit.
She said some people consider gun buyback programs ineffective, but added, "Every gun that we can get off the streets is one less gun that we have to worry about and one less gun you have to worry about."
Area churches have volunteered to serve as gun collection sites; volunteers also will distribute literature about the program.
The campaign is being sponsored by Brinks Security and Comerica Bank.
Rhetorical
Now my question. Isn't it illegal to take a gun to church in Michigan.
Or can the chruch give special permission. Can that permission be turned on and off at will. Or once permission is given is it open forever? If on that day can't we all go to church with guns even if we don't want to turn them in ?
Turn in guns, get cash back in Detroit
July 29, 2006
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060731/OPINION01/607310305/1068/OPINION
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060729/NEWS01/607290334
BY NAOMI R. PATTON
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
About the buyback
*
Any gun can be exchanged anonymously for a voucher ranging from $50 to $200. The voucher can be redeemed at a bank. Buybacks will take place 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Here's the schedule:
• Tuesday: Detroit Police Northeastern District, 5100 E. Nevada; King David Missionary Baptist Church, 18001 Sunset.
• Wednesday: Detroit Police Southwestern District, 4700 W. Fort; Greater Apostolic Faith Temple, 4735 W. Fort.
• Thursday: Detroit Police Central District, 4747 Woodward; St. John's CME, 8715 Woodward.
• Friday: Detroit Police Western District, 1441 W. Seven Mile; City of Hope Church, 7565 W. McNichols.
• Aug. 5: Detroit Police Northwestern District, 11450 Warwick; Eastern District, 11187 Gratiot; Leland Missionary Baptist Church, 22420 Fenkell; Charity Lutheran Church, 17220 Kelly.
For information, go to: www.nationaltownwatch.org/nno.
The Detroit Police Department will launch a citywide gun buyback campaign next week.
Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings, surrounded by residents and members of the Neighborhood Service Organization Youth Initiatives Project, announced the campaign Friday.
The program will start Tuesday in conjunction with the 23rd annual National Night Out, a crime-prevention event.
Bully-Cummings said the buyback is part of the city's multilayered approach to getting guns off the streets and reducing crime.
She also cited Operation TIDE (Tactical Intelligence Driven Enforcement), a program that unites city, state and federal law enforcement agencies to identify crime patterns, and the Joshua Project, a city and state collaboration aimed at curbing gun violence in Detroit.
She said some people consider gun buyback programs ineffective, but added, "Every gun that we can get off the streets is one less gun that we have to worry about and one less gun you have to worry about."
Area churches have volunteered to serve as gun collection sites; volunteers also will distribute literature about the program.
The campaign is being sponsored by Brinks Security and Comerica Bank.
Rhetorical
Now my question. Isn't it illegal to take a gun to church in Michigan.
Or can the chruch give special permission. Can that permission be turned on and off at will. Or once permission is given is it open forever? If on that day can't we all go to church with guns even if we don't want to turn them in ?