Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday implored residents to hand over their guns in exchange for prepaid gift cards despite questions about the program's effectiveness and reluctant corporate sponsorship.
Daley was quick to defend the program, in which gun owners can turn over their weapons "no questions asked" from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in exchange for $100 a gun.
"A gun lives forever, a human being doesn't live forever," Daley said at a news conference at a South Side church. "It does much damage to anyone in the community."
The buy-back program was challenged last week by Dr. Carl Bell, a psychiatrist and president and CEO of Chicago's Community Mental Health Council, who said at a City Council hearing that the guns being turned in "don't work in the first damn place."
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