New Jerseyans Surrendering Guns At Record Pace
Nearly 10,000 guns have been turned in across the state since the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Authorities say the massacre prompted residents to rid their homes of guns.
The doors of two Camden churches swung open shortly after daybreak on Dec. 14, with law enforcement officials inside hoping a two-day cash-for-guns program might help put a dent in the crime rate in one of America’s most violent cities. But just 90 minutes after people began to trickle into the churches, a troubled 20-year-old named Adam Lanza shot his way into an elementary school in a small Connecticut town as idyllic as Camden is gritty. As the scope of the Newtown school massacre came into focus that afternoon – 20 children and six adults lay dead – the trickle of people with guns to surrender in Camden grew into a stream and, by the following morning, a torrent. Officials collected 1,137 firearms during those two days in Camden, the …
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matt dougherty
10:13 pm on Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Sure, help them after they Kill other innocent children ! Put them to death that is what I'd do to help them ! BASTARDS ! more ›