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WA: What It Takes To Get Guns Out Of The Wrong Hands
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“The system is reactive,” says Chris Anderson, a prosecutor in the City Attorney Office in Seattle, Wash. “The court says you’re prohibited from possessing firearms, and if you’re later arrested with a firearm, then you’re guilty … but there’s never been a mechanism in place to go get those firearms.”
For the last couple of years, Anderson has been part of a collaboration between the city and King County to curb gun violence. One of the first things the group did was measure the compliance rate for orders to surrender weapons. It turned out to be shockingly low. In 2016, 56 percent of the people who received the orders simply ignored them. And of those who did respond, a suspiciously small number actually surrendered any guns. |
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jac
(1/27/2018)
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| Sounds like a solution in search of a problem. |
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mickey
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The system works adequately.
You offend, you become a prohibited person, whether or not your offense has anything to do with your trustworthiness with weapons.
If, after you become prohibited, you and your arms become a problem to society, then you go to prison for felon in possession, and the problem you present has been temporarily solved. |
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