would you trade your gun for an xbox?

[karyn]

Xbox for your gun?

from yahoo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering to swap them for computers and video-game consoles.

Launching the program Tuesday in the notorious inner-city barrio of Tepito, which police stormed last month, city police chief Joel Ortega said anyone who turns in a high-caliber weapon like a machine gun will get a computer.

Owners can swap smaller guns for cash or Microsoft Corp.'s
Xbox video-game consoles under the plan.

Newly elected Mayor Marcelo Ebrard has moved quickly to restore order to the chaotic capital by going after well-known crime dens and clearing the city's narrow streets of informal vendors whose stalls have blocked sidewalks for years.

His moves echo those of new conservative President Felipe Calderon, who since December has ordered the military into several states infested by ruthless drug gangs who killed about 2,000 people last year.

Last month police stormed Tepito, a warren of scruffy homes and market stalls a few blocks north of the capital's main square, seizing a tenement complex known as "The Fortress" -- reputedly a major cocaine and marijuana distribution center.

"This area is a symbol of crime," said police spokesman Ricardo Olayo.

Organizers say they have 100 computers ready for the first wave of the program, each worth 8,500 pesos ($769) and equipped with software donated by Microsoft. On the first day, Olayo said the city received 17 guns, including 12 from Tepito.

If successful, the program will be extended to Iztapalapa, another area targeted by police where last week 800 officers expropriated a six-block neighborhood filled with stores selling parts torn from stolen cars.

Guns that are handed over will be destroyed by the army. The city promised to protect their owners' anonymity.

[Bondage Clown]

Bunch of Crap... I hate Xbox's.. and would use my guns to blow them away like watermelons...

[inox]

My gun's worth more than my XBox, so no.

[GnArKiLL]

Bunch of Crap... I hate Xbox's.. and would use my guns to blow them away like watermelons...

fuck




you.

[Amelia G]

Besides, if you have a gun and a criminal tendency, you can always get an Xbox. If you have no criminal tendencies, who cares if you have a gun or an Xbox?

[Lady Alias]

lol

CONSOLE WAR

[HempKnight]

I'd trade everyone else's Xbox that I took
at gunpoint for more guns...

cause you can NEVER have too many guns!

[Amelia G]

I'd trade everyone else's Xbox that I took
at gunpoint for more guns...

cause you can NEVER have too many guns!

Now that is an example of fine out of the (X)box thinking.

[VoldtaEngler]

Bunch of Crap... I hate Xbox's.. and would use my guns to blow them away like watermelons...

As if Microsoft software doesn't have enough holes in em.. But i love my Xbox..and PS3..but no Wii yet

How much ammo can I trade for games?

[Morning Glory]

X-box is the new word for mexican prison?

[HempKnight]

Not enough Xbox's to make it worth while
for me to trade.

[CherryCola]

guns guns guns guns

[Cafe_Post_Mortem]

I suppose if I had a cheap enough gun and it was anonymous, sure why not?

I used to thin the aim of these programs was sensible. They were not so much to get the guns out of the hands of your hard core criminals, but to clean up the guns that your grandad left when you moved in or what have you. You would be surprised how many people have guns laying around that just sit in a shoe box waiting for an accident or to be stolen or purchased by someone intending to cause harm.

It is a good plan if that is the case. If anyone expects the armed criminal element to run out and trade in their guns for xboxes however, they will likely be disappointed.

[Velvet-Tongue]

lol sure, then i'll sell the xbox to buy a better gun.

[antiseptic fashion]

Bad idea, everyone knows video games are to blame for the majority of the violence in America,

"...pry it from my cold, dead hands". - Charton Heston, in referance to his X-box