Do Gun Buy Backs Work?

From the Cincinnati.com: The rifles, pistols and shotguns always look impressive when they’re displayed at press conferences celebrating the end of gun buyback campaigns.
Spread across tables or piled high into overflowing stacks, all those weapons reinforce the notion that trading cash for guns works. It gets guns off the street, organizers say, and makes the city safer.
The problem, according to years of research, is that it does neither.
Cincinnati will join a growing list of cities this week that have embraced gun buyback programs in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in Connecticut. The first of Cincinnati’s three planned gun buybacks for 2013 is Tuesday in North Fairmount....
Researchers who have evaluated gun control strategies say buybacks – despite their popularity – are among the least effective ways to reduce gun violence. They say targeted police patrols, intervention efforts with known criminals and, to a lesser extent, tougher gun laws all work better than buybacks.
The biggest weakness of buybacks, which offer cash or gift cards for guns, is that the firearms they usually collect are insignificant when measured against the arsenal now in the hands of American citizens.....
“They make for good photo images,” said Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem Oriented Policing, based at the University of Wisconsin’s law school. “But gun buyback programs recover such a small percentage of guns that it’s not likely to make much impact.”  http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130113/NEWS010701/301130051/IN-DEPTH-Gun-buyback-off-target?nclick_check=1
Another liberal idea shot to hell.  (sorry, bad pun)