Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has launched the nationwide “Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace” program.
The program offers cash to citizens who anonymously surrender firearms, including $430 for revolvers, $1,200 for AK-47s, and $1,300 for machine guns.
The weapons will be destroyed.
The program, expanded from a 2019 Mexico City initiative, aims to combat violent crime, with firearms responsible for 70% of Mexico’s 31,062 homicides in 2023.
Just like with US buybacks, they will get guns that would never be used in a homicide, unless it were stolen.
And the same with other countries buybacks. The government gets sold a load of trashed/trashy guns, sellers get money for better guns.
Still fewer weapons 🤷
What?!
You know guns last longer than people right?
Even if never sold and never stolen, they will eventually be inherited.
Like, you know great grandma didn’t really move to a farm upstate, right?
Are you saying that you believe that eventually the family heirloom gun will inevitably be passed down to a murderous Mexican?
That’s pretty racist.
Pretty much a lot of those guns are stolen.