The Chicago Police Department collected more than 100 guns this weekend at a “buy back” event meant to “get guns off the streets and curb gun violence.”

The idiocy of these types of events is matched only by the media’s quivering effort to paint them as a) moral and b) effective. Fact is that gun buy backs are neither.

The event, which was CPD’s second of the year, offered a $100 gift card in exchange for a firearm, a $10 gift card for BB guns, replicas and air pistols.

Who purchased these gift cards? Were they donated by a private corporation, or did the city of Chicago merely use taxpayer funds to give imbeciles stupid enough to give up their muskets and other firearms and toys that have never been used in street crimes in Chicago $100 each?

Don’t answer that. The question is rhetorical. Taxpayers are giving morons $100 each, while the Chicago PD, the city government, and the mediots who spread their propaganda pretend that they’re reducing violence.

Held at Saint John’s Polish National Catholic Church on the Southwest Side, the event collected an assortment of revolvers and long guns, as well as a few muskets and even a single action shotgun. And no questions were asked.

Meanwhile in Chicago this weekend, two people were killed and 27 others were wounded in the city’s deadliest weekend since October.

I would bet my left arm that most, if not all, of these shootings were committed with handguns – not long guns, not muskets, and not air pistols, replicas, and BB guns – for which leeches only too happy to get themselves some freebies at taxpayer expense also received gift cards.

And “no questions asked” means that the city has now provided enterprising thugs who may have shot one of these 29 people in Chicago this weekend a convenient way to dispose of the tools they used to commit acts of violence and give them a $100 gift to boot! Nice job, Chicago!

Ald. Ed Burke (14th Ward) and Ald. Ray Lopez (15th Ward) co-sponsored the event. “Which if a young child was playing with, any officer would think he had an assault rifle in his hands,” Lopez said of a very real-looking assault rifle.

Considering how little mediots know about rifles – “assault” (a manufactured term that doesn’t mean anything) or otherwise – I have my doubts about the authenticity of the description of said “very real-looking assault rifle.” And knowing just how limited most politicians’ knowledge of firearms is, and how easily they manipulate paranoid, hysterical sheep in the general public with fear-mongering derp, I’m pretty sure this is a hamhanded effort to pretend something is being done about erroneous police shootings, instead of increased training and responsibility of law enforcement officers and weeding out police corruption such as the type revealed in testimony in Baltimore in when an officer admitted that cops kept toy guns around “in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them.”

And anyone remember this moron from California?

That’s about the level of knowledge I expect from politicians in the city of Chicago as well, given the fact that they just gave more than $1000 of money that did not belong to them to idiots stupid enough to give up muskets and BB guns and possibly criminals who could have been prosecuted and held accountable for the very gun violence the politicians claim to be trying to reduce.

Let me say that again – it’s not their money. That money belongs to the taxpayers, and it’s being used for virtue signaling and ineffective public messaging campaigns such as this “buy back” program that has no hope of reducing violence of any kind.

And if you doubt that this “buy back” campaign is nothing but empty messaging, consider the fact that this particular media outlet interviewed the mother of a victim who was shot in March.

Michelle Vincent’s 32-year-old son, Terrell Jones, who worked as a streets and sanitation worker, was gunned down in March.

Terrell Jones’ death was a tragedy. Mr. Jones was a passenger in a vehicle traveling on the streets of Chicago in March when two men got out of an SUV and murdered the father of three. The reward for information about this senseless crime was raised to $10,000 after a $1,000 reward yielded no information.

Think Jones was murdered with a musket? A single-action shotgun? Was he gunned down with a BB gun? And if the perpetrators did use a rifle or a handgun, do city officials think that giving his murderer an easy way to dispose of the firearm he used in that crime is a good idea? Do they believe that those intent on committing violence on the streets of Chicago won’t easily procure another gun after getting their taxpayer-funded $100 gift card?

The answer is obvious, so why bring up Mr. Jones’ horrible death?

Because when trying to appeal to the emotions of the clueless Great Unwashed, facts don’t matter, even if the media has acknowledged that gun “buy backs” are ineffective and mathematics supports this assessment.

As if conducting more buy backs would have prevented Mr. Jones’ murderers from getting more weapons!

So the only reason to even conduct this immoral (what else would you call using money siphoned from the taxpayers to conduct disingenuous messaging campaigns?), ineffective “buy back” event is to allow city officials to pretend they’re confronting violence in Chicago and relieve them of the responsibility they bear for said violence, as they disarm the law-abiding citizens, while giving violent savages the opportunity to get rid of guns they use in crimes and get a taxpayer-funded gift card in the process.

Featured image courtesy of Oleg Volk.