With the South Bay community still reeling from the brazen shooting at Valley Fair Mall last week, the city of San Jose sponsored a gun buyback event Saturday morning.
The scheduling of the event may have been coincidental to the Black Friday shootings, but it was not far from the minds of those who arrived to hand over their firearms.
The timing couldn’t have been better for the anonymous buyback. San Jose police were paying people up to $200 to turn in unwanted guns and halfway through the event, they had already paid out more than $10,000…