Do you remember Robert Ficano? He’s the quiet county executive. He’s not as quotable as Oakland’s L. Brooks Patterson. He’s not as young as Macomb’s Mark Hackel. But Ficano is in charge of Wayne County, which includes Detroit.

Ficano has proposed a plan to buy back guns in order to reduce violence in his county -- primarily in the Grosse Pointes. Or maybe it’s Detroit that’s he concerned about.

The Detroit law firm of Goodman Acker is part of the buyback program. You’ve probably seen their television ads – their spokesman is William Shatner. That tells me Detroit is also willing to buy back all space guns. Set your phasers on stun.

Hopefully the buyback program will result in the returned guns being destroyed. It’s kind of like President Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program, where people’s old cars were bought and destroyed. The idea was that those people would then buy more fuel-efficient cars. The problem with Ficano’s gun buyback program is that the people returning guns are the law-abiding type. But at least there will be fewer guns for criminals to steal from law-abiding gun owners.

Do you remember Robert Ficano? He’s the quiet county executive. He’s not as quotable as Oakland’s L. Brooks Patterson. He’s not as young as Macomb’s Mark Hackel. But Ficano is in charge of Wayne County, which includes Detroit.

Ficano has proposed a plan to buy back guns in order to reduce violence in his county -- primarily in the Grosse Pointes. Or maybe it’s Detroit that’s he concerned about.

The Detroit law firm of Goodman Acker is part of the buyback program. You’ve probably seen their television ads – their spokesman is William Shatner. That tells me Detroit is also willing to buy back all space guns. Set your phasers on stun.

Hopefully the buyback program will result in the returned guns being destroyed. It’s kind of like President Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program, where people’s old cars were bought and destroyed. The idea was that those people would then buy more fuel-efficient cars. The problem with Ficano’s gun buyback program is that the people returning guns are the law-abiding type. But at least there will be fewer guns for criminals to steal from law-abiding gun owners.