Gun Buyback is Basking Ridge Man's Own Plan to Stop Violence
Richard Palumbo, moved by Connecticut school shooting, gains support for Somerset County initiative.
A Basking Ridge man's inspiration to put up some of his own money to buy back unwanted and illegal guns as a way of preventing potential shooting tragedies has been gaining support through private donations and the help of Somerset County law enforcement authorities, he said. Like many people, Basking Ridge resident Richard Palumbo watched the news about last month's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., wishing there was something he could do to help. For Palumbo, the sympathy for the families of the children who were killed was made more acute because he himself has children, ages 5 and 8. He also noted that Basking Ridge, the community where he and his wife live and his children attend school, is remarkably like Newtown in many ways. But …
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E. Woltman
11:25 am on Friday, March 29, 2013
"Just feel he could have gotten more mileage if he went a different route".......that's what we've been tellin' you Richard....like donating it to the NRA to uphold and defend the US Consitiution that these gentlemen in uniform have sworn an oath to. more ›