Rumor Mill
By Mitch Berg
To: Betsy Hodges, mayor, Minneapolis.
From: Mitch Berg, ornery peasant
Re: Rumors
Mayor Hodges,
Over the weekend, the rumor mill announced that you had told a gathering somewhere in Minneapolis you were planning on holding a “gun buyback”.
Please, please please please please please, oh please, please please please please please, I beg of you; go ahead with it.
You simply have to. I beg of you, with all my heart.
That is all.
UPDATE: Rumor mill says it’ll be held August 27 at thePillsbury United Communities, or somewhere in that vicinity.
July 18th, 2016 at 7:05 am
They always have the answer, don’t they?
July 18th, 2016 at 7:20 am
Buyback time? Oh hell yeah! I’ll collect every busted shotgun, rifle and rusty old pistol I can lay my hands on and head on up there. I’ll use Minneapolis’ money to buy everyone dinner in Hudson.
July 18th, 2016 at 7:57 am
Shouldn’t that money be going to decorative water fountains, bike lanes and Community Development slush funds?
July 18th, 2016 at 8:03 am
“Community Development slush funds?”
With Bill Davis & Son temporarily sidelined some city monies have freed themselves up for other important uses.
July 18th, 2016 at 8:17 am
Ugh. More priceless relics to be destroyed.
July 18th, 2016 at 9:13 am
What are they paying?
I have an old .22 single-shot that my grandmother pulled out of a brush fire, about 70 years ago, and stuck in her closet. I know it’s not been fired, or cleaned, in at least 50 years.
If they’re offering >$100, I might well be willing to sell it.
July 18th, 2016 at 10:10 am
I’ve got a 70-year old .22 off-brand pistol that’s missing a front sight and has a touchy sear, can’t find parts anywhere on the Internet. $100 sounds like a very good price to me. There you go, Ms. Mayor, another “gun off the streets.” Bet you’ll sleep safer tonight.
July 18th, 2016 at 10:52 am
For those who don’t have guns, there will be a “finders fee” of 10%. That’ll guarantee passage.
July 18th, 2016 at 11:45 am
Me too…..I have a couple of junkers that I could get rid of and use the paid money to buy better guns or more ammo!!!
July 18th, 2016 at 11:54 am
What bothers me about this is the term “buy back”: as if the city is usually in the business of selling guns to people, but now they want to buy them back from them.
I suppose it’s too much to ask them to use a more descriptive term, like “buy up” or “buy crap”, since they want to do something so useless.