{"id":2013185,"date":"2023-08-26T16:51:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T20:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-woods-points-out-a-big-problem-with-gun-buyback-good-idea-slick\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T20:53:01","slug":"james-woods-points-out-a-big-problem-with-gun-buyback-good-idea-slick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-woods-points-out-a-big-problem-with-gun-buyback-good-idea-slick\/","title":{"rendered":"James Woods criticizes gun buyback: &#8216;Nice try, but not effective&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjames-woods-points-out-a-big-problem-with-gun-buyback-good-idea-slick%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013185&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>James Woods Points Out a \u2063Big Problem with Gun Buyback: &#8216;Good Idea, Slick&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Actor and conservative social media star James Woods had\u200d a perfect retort against the whole idea\u2064 of gun buyback programs that\u200c had fans cheering.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug.\u2063 25, \u200can anonymous X\u2062 user asked\u200d the platform if\u2063 they would turn in their guns if the government sponsored a nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/canadian-rebellion-spreads-like-wildfire-three-provinces-openly-defying-trudeaus-gun-surrender-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gun buyback<\/a> \u2063program that offered them a $5,000 payout.<\/p>\n<p>Woods,\u2064 as is often the case, had a \u2063particularly \u200dsharp reply to that proposition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Of course. I mean, you \u200bcan buy some terrific new upgrades with that kind of money. I would then donate the remaining \u200ccapital for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-woods-points-out-a-big-problem-with-gun-buyback-good-idea-slick\/\" title=\"James Woods criticizes gun buyback: 'Nice try, but not effective'\">firearms training scholarships<\/a> \u2063to proud new gun owners, who couldn\u2019t afford it on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Good idea, slick. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wbvcKt2ezO\">https:\/\/t.co\/wbvcKt2ezO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJamesWoods\/status\/1695117073482191083?\">August 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It isn\u2019t\u2062 clear if the original poster to whom Woods was\u200c replying understood\u2062 that $5,000 \u2063would buy quite a few handguns (and perhaps even an improvement or two\u2063 to \u2062the overall armory), but Woods\u2019\u2064 greater point about gun buyback programs is right; they aren\u2019t really very\u200b effective.<\/p>\n<p>Several other X users had good points, too. Some \u2063asked if it were the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-harris-called-mandatory-buyback-20-million-assault-weapons-happens-people-obey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal government<\/a> offering \u2063this absurd program, just \u2064where would that $5,000 be coming from?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Where would\u200c the government obtain this money to make these payments\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cal Spoon \u200c(@IBustInsurance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IBustInsurance\/status\/1695148230500130820?\">August 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Not to\u200d mention the reality that you would be buying back \u200dyour own gun since the government has no money except for what we give them or the treasury prints.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stan Stinson \u200c\u200c (@Stan_Stinson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stan_Stinson\/status\/1695471822769164721?\">August \u206326, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One X user went on to point out the folly of such programs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The pictures of the guns that are dumped at these buybacks \u200dare\u2062 always so hilarious.<br \/>\nMost of it is old junk\u2064 that\u2063 wasn\u2019t\u2062 functional to begin\u2064 with.<br \/>\nYour tax dollars at \u2062work!<br \/>\nHahaha!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 StillLivinginthewoods (@Stillnthewoods) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stillnthewoods\/status\/1695151730701279559?\">August\u2062 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But\u2063 another X user had a\u2063 hilarious \u200bresponse by saying \u200cthat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-admits-plan-confiscate-10-million-guns-just-starters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government<\/a> \u200d wouldn\u2019t even pass a background check to be trustworthy enough to own a gun!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019ve checked the government\u2019s \u200cbackground and they didn\u2019t pass.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t in good conscience give them weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\udc71\ud835\udc86\ud835\udc93\ud835\udc86\ud835\udc8e\ud835\udc9a \ud835\udc71\ud835\udc90\ud835\udc86 (@TheJeremyJoe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheJeremyJoe\/status\/1695119676383117540?\">August 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Woods and his fans are \u2064right.\u200c These programs are universally risible efforts to take \u200bguns off \u200dthee \u2062streets. They usually have predictable results \u2062and their \u200beffect on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/11-shootings-last-month-1-thing-common-democrats-hate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crime<\/a> is questionable.<\/p>\n<p>Their effect on actually lessening the raw number of guns in use \u200dis even more\u2064 dubious.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2018,\u200c for instance, one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/woman-turns-gun-baltimore-gun-buyback-buy-bigger-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">woman in Baltimore<\/a> told the media that \u200dshe was turning in her small\u2064 9 mm handgun so that she could use the\u2062 city\u2019s money to go \u2063buy a better weapon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One\u2064 woman shows us the 9MM she is turning in for \u200dthe Baltimore City Gun Buy Back program. But she says she is using \u200cthe cash to get a bigger weapon! Story on FOX45 at 4pm. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LlmCbezpU7\">pic.twitter.com\/LlmCbezpU7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u200bKathleen Cairns \u2064(@CairnsKcairns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CairnsKcairns\/status\/1074759034513838081?\">December 17, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In another case, a man in \u200cHouston, Texas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/one-man-completely-outsmarted-houston-gun-buyback-profited\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outsmarted<\/a> left-wing \u200ccity officials who \u200cwere offering \u2063a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debunking-the-myth-of-americas-unique-gun-problem\/\" title=\"Debunking The Myth Of \u2018America\u2019s Unique Gun Problem\u2019\">gun buyback program<\/a> there.<\/p>\n<p>In August of\u2063 last year, the city sponsored a buyback \u2063program, but to make a point on how absurd the\u200c idea\u200b is, one resident printed up a few dozen \u201cguns\u201d\u2063 on his 3-D printer and netted \u2062a big\u200d handful of the\u200b Amazon gift cards the\u200d city was offering. The man came out \u2064way ahead and made a great point on how foolish the program was in the process.<\/p>\n<p>After the \u200bprogram ended,\u2062 Houston Mayor Sylvester \u200cTurner sheepishly admitted that they would have to exclude 3-D printed\u2064 guns \u200cif they renewed the program in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, these programs are \u2064a joke from beginning \u2062to \u2063end. Criminals don\u2019t turn in \u2062their \u200cguns, only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-sheriffs-tell-newsom-they-wont-enforce-covid-curfew\/\" title=\"California Sheriffs Tell Newsom They Won't Enforce COVID Curfew\">law-abiding citizens<\/a> do that.<\/p>\n<p>So, guns aren\u2019t really being \u201ctaken off the \u2062streets\u201d like proponents claim. And usually only obsolete\u200b and\u200c broken guns are\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/health.ucdavis.edu\/vprp\/pdf\/2013\/2013.11.improving-the-potential-effectiveness-of-gun-buyback-programs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turned in<\/a>, anyway. And there is no evidence that shows these programs reduce violence \u2062or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gun-rights-groups-suing-san-jose-over-gun-ownership-tax-insurance-mandate\/\" title=\"Gun Rights Groups Suing San Jose Over \u2018Gun Ownership Tax\u2019 Insurance Mandate\">curb gun crime<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/research\/gun-policy\/analysis\/essays\/gun-buyback-programs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rand Corporation<\/a> study\u2064 noted in January.<\/p>\n<p>So,\u2063 ridicule is all\u2063 these \u200dprograms are worth as far as serious policy goes.<\/p>\n<p>Though they are\u200c an excellent\u200d opportunity for enterprising citizens to come \u200cout ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/james-woods-points-big-problem-gun-buyback-good-idea-slick\/\">James Woods Points Out a Big Problem with \u200cGun Buyback: &#8216;Good Idea, \u200dSlick&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and conservative social media star James Woods delivered a brilliant response to gun buyback programs, earning cheers from fans. When asked if he would surrender his firearms for a $5,000 government-sponsored nationwide initiative, Woods had the perfect retort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2013186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}