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.
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.
Still fewer weapons 🤷