Tomorrow at the Dorsey Building on Bendix Rd (off Route 108) the Howard County Police are having a "gun buy back" from 11 am to 3 pm. Funds used in this program come from drug confiscated property. Getting guns "off the street" certainly has the potential to make a community safer but the question with these buy back programs is whether the guns turned in are coming from people who would be using their gun in an illegal or unsafe manner. It is safe to assume that no one who is going to use the gun to commit a crime is the type of person to turn a gun in with this buy back program. While that maybe true removing any gun from a household makes it less likely to be used in a suicide or an accidental shooting. Contrary to the argument of gun rights advocates having a gun in your home makes your home less safe than more safe. Examples of women using a gun to protect their children may sound reassuring to some but the real facts point to the gun being used against the woman more than for her protection.
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From the Columbia Association:
CA’s new World Languages Café offers free, friendly way to learn
new languages, increase fluency
The World Languages Café
provides monthly evenings of conversation, food and culture for people to speak
a language they know or are learning, increase their fluency by speaking and
listening, meet others who enjoy learning languages, pick up useful phrases to
use when traveling — or even to recall a childhood language.
These gatherings are free
and are appropriate for adults, as well as college and high school students.
They will be held on the fourth Wednesday of the month — upcoming dates are
March 27, April 24, May 22 and June 26 — from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Wegmans Café,
located at 8855 McGaw Road in Columbia. People are invited to come upstairs and
join the language table of their choice, whether they want to drop in or stay the
entire time. On their way up, people can purchase a drink, snack or dinner to
bring with them.
Language tables are hosted
by native speakers who will facilitate conversation; these gatherings are not
grammar or vocabulary classes.
Check ColumbiaAssociation.org/Multicultural each month for the
languages that will be offered at the upcoming session. Languages for March 27
will be announced soon on the website. For more information, contact International@ColumbiaAssociation.org or call 410-715-3162.
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1 comment:
One of the best uses of the gun buy back program is as a way for people to get rid of guns that they are no longer interested in owning. This may be because they inherited the firearm, it is no longer safe to use, or because they have realized they do not have the training or desire to fire a weapon appropriately in the event it is needed.
I encourage every law-abiding citizen who wants to have a gun to do so, with the proper licensing and training. If you do own a gun, you must be physically, mentally, and emotionally ready to fire that weapon and to take a life. If you are not, then you are better off selling the weapon because it won't do you any good.
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