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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.
Want a PS3? Just show up.
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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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This is proof to me that Microsoft is forming a Militia. If they can't dominate a market through economics, they will simply take it by force!
Man it's gotta to suck to be working the electronics desk when they run out of consoles.
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!
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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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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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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