Actress Debi Mazar supports gun buyback programs

Actress Debi Mazar, known most recently for her recurring role on HBO’s “Entourage,” is pushing for more gun buybacks:

I post a pic w/a celeb&get 700 likes in 1/2
Hr.I talk abt guns..and youth being killed..and nada .come on ppl!Lets raise R voices!

— Debi Mazar (@debimazar) August 4, 2013

Everything helps! RT @SPGray63760 @debimazar do you think a gun buyback will reduce that problem?

— Debi Mazar (@debimazar) August 4, 2013

As a kid,I used to play w/ my grandma's Beretta hand gun.So pretty!Silver,engraved .Nite stand drawer.Lucky I didn't kill myself..or someone

— Debi Mazar (@debimazar) August 4, 2013

People who will not or can’t safely keep and store their guns shouldn’t have them, but gun buybacks are not remedies for carelessness.

Mazar tweeted that she used to own guns:

I WAS a gun owner/precision [email protected] after kids,put in a lock box.What do I tell the perp.."wait.i gotta go unlock my gun?1 min!"??

— Debi Mazar (@debimazar) August 5, 2013

Aside from serving as expensive photo ops for politicians, gun buybacks accomplish little. In spite of that, Mazar will get her wish, because New York City will spend $150,000 on ten gun buyback events later this year. Geraldo should be pleased as well, but if people are expecting the buyback to make a big dent in the number of criminal shootings, history shows they might end up being disappointed.