Let me reword that for you Victoria, in the house I grew up in, if my Mother thought I was getting too big for my britches she'd simply tell me and my brothers....you'd better " get in line " or I'll put you in line and would follow that up with a " Don't think your ever too big for me to handle, if I have to stand on a chair with a ball bat....you WILL listen to me and obey my rules"...... and partly because we believed her but mostly because we " respected her " nobody ever got The Bat. Hell she'd have had NO problem if need be escorting any one of us out the door @ the business end of a shotgun ( women of that day were well versed in guns to some extent )

TMCTLT wrote:

What does your mother being willing to point a loaded gun at you have to do with this TCBY?

Just because you had a firm belief your mother was willing to hit you with a baseball bat or shoot you with a shotgun doesn't mean everyone's mother has expressed such sentiment. Is this a "it was good enough for me therefore it's good enough for everyone else" mentality?

Dude... if no one calls the number, no one's houses get searched and no money is spent. If some parent thinks their kid is hiding some guns and doesn't want to point a shotgun at them themselves, they could theoretically call the number. It really shouldn't be any controversy here.

victor809 wrote:

I realize many of you Cali folks want someone else to do your " necessary " work for ya's but seriously.....these folks cannot search their own homes if they want rid of " mystery guns "

TMCTLT wrote:

... dude... the police department has a vested interest in getting guns out of the hands of petty criminals and general idiots. This is a method by which cops may be able to disarm some dumb-@ss teens or young adults before they do something really stupid. Are you going to get hung up on the fact that the parents should be able to do it themselves?

Again... it's totally voluntary. If every parent takes care of their "necessary work" themselves and doesn't call, there's no cost. Or, if every parent continues to think their little angel couldn't possibly be collecting guns, again, there's no cost (maybe a few school shootings and some muggings/murders/whatever... but still no real cost).

Simply put, as a completely voluntary program with likely no overhead, I'm not seeing how it's news.

victor809 wrote:

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Neither ami I.....

TMCTLT wrote:

I find no merit in the program and am afraid it is insidious. Bad bad idea.

To out do them the folks in Boston will soon allow themselves to be forced to house the police in their living room.

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