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Wisconsin police chief compares gun violence to Ebola, asks residents to volunteer for searches
By Edmund DeMarche
Published December 09, 2014FoxNews.com
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Beloit, Wisc., residents have been invited to volunteer their homes for gun searches.
Police Chief Norm Jacobs' idea that residents of Beloit, Wisc., should volunteer to let his officers search their homes for guns is drawing fire from Second Amendment advocates and homeowners alike.
Jacobs, the top cop in the southern Wisconsin city of 40,000, admits his novel notion that residents can request a visit by officers to inspect the home for any unknown guns that may be in the household has generated a lot of reaction, and not of the positive variety.
"Most of the calls have been negative," Norm Jacobs, the chief of police in Beloit, told FoxNews.com.
Jacobs' policy was featured in a recent report by Wisconsin Public Radio, in which he likened gun violence to Ebola and said voluntary searches were like a vaccine.
"Gun violence is as serious as the Ebola virus is being represented in the media, and we should fight it using the tools that we've learned from our health providers," he said.