To: President Donald Trump, The New York State House, The New York State Senate, Governor Andrew Cuomo, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Gun Swap Program: Guns for Tablets
In Mexico, where there is a well publicized severe problem with Gun Violence, a new program was initiated in Mexico City in January of 2013, in which firearms can be traded in, to the State, in exchange for computers (PC's or Tablets) or toys. The guns turned in are then registered and destroyed. While computers are a useful tool for education, which would greatly benefit children and impoverished families, the guns they already own would merely be useful tools for those who would choose a life of crime. This is a program that we could institute in our gun-crime-ridden American urban centers like Chicago and New York City. It would reduce the vast quantity of guns on our streets, while promoting education to raise children out of poverty, and the alternative temptations of a life of crime. On every level, Gun Swap Programs ike the one in Mexico City would save lives.
Why is this important?
In the past week, there have been another two news stories regarding guns that have received international attention: the brilliantly thwarted potential massacre in another elementary school, in Atlanta, Georgia, and the random fatal shooting of an Australian exchange student in Oklahoma. When I heard in a foreign news report, about Mexico City's Gun Swap Program, I had to wonder: Why isn't this being tried in the U.S.? - It sounds like just what we need.