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Food for guns in Cumberland County
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Food for guns in Cumberland County
Interesting tactic for curtailing gun violence in Cumberland County, New Jersey: Offering food in exchange for firearms. The Press of Atlantic City reports:
Gun buybacks are not a new tactic to cut the number of firearms in circulation.
But Cumberland County leaders are tweaking that idea by offering food as the trade, in hopes of attacking two problems at once: the proliferation of guns and hunger in New Jersey's poorest county.
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Gun buybacks have been used in cities across the nation, and over the past year or so, some have done what Cumberland leaders are doing and tweaked the idea to make it a food trade-in, capitalizing on the recession. Organizers give people food vouchers in exchange for their guns.
The article goes on to explain that the goal of the program is not to get the so-called "the gang bangers in the street" to relinquish their weapons � rather, law enforcement officials hope that the vouchers will serve as an incentive to those who find or are in possession of illegal firearms. They're hoping that fewer available weapons will mathematically translate to an overall drop in violent crime.
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