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Mexico City Starts 'Games for Guns' Campaign

Posted by Zonk on from the gaming-and-social-conciousness dept.

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.'"

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  1. This is brilliant! by Seumas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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!

  2. Re:It doesn't stop there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I thought that the program decided the value of your "reward" based on the caliber of the weapon you turned in, in which case a PS3 would require at least a fully functioning aircraft carrier.

  3. Re:Gonna buy me a machine gun... by Dimensio · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're seriously telling me that paying the $200 tax stamp, undergoing a six month federal background check and paying over $10,000 (the least expensive "machine guns" start at that, because the supply of civillian-legal machine guns in the US is so low and never growing) is cheaper than buying a few games?

    I think that you've stretched hyperbole beyond credibility.

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  4. Have it both ways? by Dekortage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    FTA:

    The weapons-for-tech exchange program (which guarantees anonymity) launched this Tuesday... More than 100 computer systems were made available for the exchange program when it launched on Tuesday in Tepito, with each worth around $769 USD (8,500 pesos) and preinstalled with donated software from Microsoft.

    Which is it -- guaranteed anonymity, or software from Microsoft? C'mon now!!!

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