Question: Are gun buyback programs like offering...

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A buy back of his guns wouild have prevented him from murdering the escort.

Correction: A buy-back of his guns wouild have given him an opportunity to sell his guns. I am unaware of a Texas restriction on a private individual selling their guns therefore that option exists with or without a buy-back program. Further selling them outside of most buy-back programs generally nets the seller more for a functional weapon. Since the gun in question operated at least once, it's reasonable to assume that it was functional. It's also logical to assume that economics applies in that a higher price for the same goods is more motivating to a seller than a lower one. I submit that a buy-back program would be irrelevant in this circumstance as the shooter was evidently more interested in keeping his gun than selling it.

However, accepting for sake of argument that a buy-back program had existed and that the gun owner, for whatever reason, was motivated to sell the gun, the only change to the events would be the shooter would be presented with the idea of choosing an alternative weapon to "use deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft."



I haven't read the details of the trial nor even a police account of the incident. The killer's actions seem over the line to me and not something I would do. The relevance of this story to the OP appears to me as tangential at best.