Comments on: Don Perata to surrender his gun tomorrow

By: hand guns st buy

hand guns st buy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:07:23 +0000

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By: thegreatdebaters

thegreatdebaters — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:04:21 +0000

There is are two types of action: constructive and symbolic. Senator Perata’s buy-back program succeeds in collecting guns, however, since collecting guns is not the goal so much as reducing violence, it is at best a symbolic gesture.

As John Reid (responder #6) illustrates, the buy-back programs may buy the guns but not the desire to wield one. Would it be such surprise if every gun donated has already been replaced?

Constructive action would support education in Nonviolence, urban uplift programs, helping all Oakland’s residents have adequate food, shelter, education, employment, and healthcare. Above all, children need to be given all the love we can possibly give them, not the type of “spoil-them-and-do-whatever-they-ask kind of love”, but the example of someone who is always kind, always loving. A good government concerned about the safety of it’s citizens should continue to pour it’s heart toward the integrity of families.

Gun owner’s are not the enemy here. It is the ignorance of the fact that we are all one. Even religious organizations forget this basic tenet of every major religion. We share the same humanity. No one can buy this realization for us.
No one is going to buy safety for Oakland. But each of us can contribute to this great goal buy strengthening the relationships with those around us, one relationship at a time.

May our grandchildren inherit the legacy of our right efforts! Viva Oakland!

By: John Reid

John Reid — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:48:17 +0000

>>$250 cash for any unloaded handgun or assault [sic] weapon, no questions asked.<<

Pawn shop and swap shop owners LIVE for days like this! A friend owned a swap shop years ago and still has a couple of buckets of junkers in his basement, most bought for $5 or less. Buy-backs have paid for his NRA life membership, a trip to an advanced pistol shooting school, and a really nice vacation! All with our tax $$s. Are we suckers or what?

p.s. – Assault is a behavior, not a device.

By: Letalis Maximus, Esq.

Letalis Maximus, Esq. — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:16:51 +0000

Police will decide who gets the $250 and who doesn’t? What a rip-off!

It is not fair, I tell you. We in the pro-RKBA community have long felt that these gun buy-back programs were the best place to get rid of our junk that doesn’t work so that we can use the money to buy ammo.

That does raise the question, though: if the police decide that you don’t get the $250, do you get to take your gun back home with you? Or will the coppers seize it?

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:00:45 +0000

Typical gun banner. He’ll arm himself when he feels threatened, blaming NRA followers for the threats, then capitalize on ridding himself of the gun. I’d bet the farm it’s not his only gun. Remember Feinstein turning in hers? That was a litte before she became entitled to carry anywhere in the country. But hey, restricting the rights of the hoi-poloi is what it’s all about, isn’t it?

By: renegade Republican

renegade Republican — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:47:09 +0000

Save your gun don!!! You may need it again in Oakland.
Of course once you loose your state financed hot rod nobody will probably want to bother you.

By: John MacDonald

John MacDonald — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:38:36 +0000

How amazing is this? Don Perata finally admits he is still a gun owner, after all these years of being anti-gun in his rhetoric and legislative votes. What an amazing display of hypocracy! How is it that so many of our elected officials think that it is okay to espouse laws that negatively affect the common man while they, the elite and special, should get to do something else. How many of Perata’s constituents would be thrilled to have a pistol carry permit to protect themselves on the mean streets of Oakland? But no, it is not for them – only for a special person like Perata. I say thank you to the good people of California who saw through the conniving of Perata and Nunez with their Proposition 93 to change the term limits. Finally, they are gone – hooray!

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:14:16 +0000

I’m wondering if this is the Weapon that Mr Perata has on his CCW or is this just a gun he found to make a notable notice in the media ?

I would put money that is not one of his permitted handguns.