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Mexico City Starts 'Games for Guns' Campaign
eldavojohn writes "Strange as it may sound, Mexico City is giving it their all in their efforts to crack down on gun related violence. The chief of police has 'announced that anyone prepared to surrender a high-calibre weapon, such as a machine gun, will receive a free computer in exchange. And, perhaps in the interests of scale and fair play, anyone turning in a smaller calibre handgun will be presented with either cash remuneration or an Xbox videogame console.'"
Notice how they'll only give you an XBox AFTER you hand in your weapons.
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Turn in a squirt gun. Get a Wii.
Turn in a throwing knife. Get a calculator.
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I thought that was the guns for toys program!
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They forget to mention that this computer is a community one that you can use in your prison cell for the next X years.
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A machine gun gets you Rainbow 6: Vegas. An Apache helicopter gets you a copy of BF2. A railgun gets you a copy of Quake 4.
And a criminal who presents themself at any Mexico City police station and holds their breath until death will receieve a copy of Duke Nukem Forever.
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Ah, but will they give away Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
But really, who would turn in a real high-calibre weapon for a lame virtual imitation? I know I wouldn't!
Man it's gotta to suck to be working the electronics desk when they run out of consoles.
Notice how they'll only give you an XBox AFTER you hand in your weapons.
Does that weapon bounty include chairs?
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If somebody shoots someone, it's open season on the one who did the shooting with no repercussion. and that person gets to keep the others gun.
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This would be brilliant in America and is exactly why we will never have any sort of real uprising or revolution in the future. If the government believes they are at serious risk of all of us fat lazy idiots turning off American Idol, putting down our six dollar coffees and storming the offices to toss out a tyranny, they'll just offer us free consoles or televisions or something else in exchange for all of our guns. We're just that dumb to go for it, too.
No rest until we have our freedom! No rest until we have our -- whoa, shit! Free GTA IV! Thanks guys!
Because it's cheaper to buy a high caliber gun and take the plane to Mexico City than to buy some of those overpriced consoles.
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This is the only sentence in the entire post with the word "Mexico." I didn't read the rest.
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...that if I need a new box I just have to get a few Uzis and drive to Mexico? I'll remember that when I need an upgrade.
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They have been consistently proven to be ineffective in reducing gun-related crime (leaving aside the severe penalties for possessing a weapon in Mexico).
The bad guys don't want to turn in their guns. Not for a couple of Lakers tickets, not for an XBOX360 (that they probably already have anyway). Legitimate, legal gun owners are not about to hand over a gun that cost many hundreds of dollars for what amounts to a trinket.
The only guns that get turned in are old junk that's rusting away in a closet, or some little old widow who's late husband had a gun and she doesn't know what to do with it.
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Mexico City is just like the towns around Orange County, California
Actually that should read: Mexico City is just like the towns around Orange County, except with less Mexicans.
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Wouldn't you say that the resale price of a large caliber handgun is large enough that this could only possibly appeal to people who were trading in a stolen firearm?
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Are there any guns that they would accept which are cheaper than what they're giving out?
It'd be awesome to buy a few dozen cheap guns and make a few thousand dollars of profit in xboxen.
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Why is it, that when you say "Machine gun" I envision an MG-42 being handed in.
Or did you mean fully automatic weapons like an UZI or an AK-47? Because there's a big difference between the two.
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Why would a hombre want to blow shit up in GTA IV when he can do the real thing in Mexico City???
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When I read the headline, I thought it was actually the other way around--turn in your video games and get guns. Glad the article cleared that one up. I wouldn't go to Mexico ever again!
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