Sunday - January 13, 2013

in praise of guns

I guess I can be fairly certain that many of our regulars if not all, have seen this.  Interesting.

Wonder what the legal penalty might be for someone who doesn’t have one cos they don’t want one.

Nah. I can’t see any libtards living in this place. Can you?

Oohh, wait a minute. Another thought.

A lib free environment? 

Ah huh.  Maybe if we ever get released from this place we can move there instead of back to Calif.
Not an altogether bad thought.

Utah Town Considers Making Gun Ownership Mandatory

by Yo’Adrienne.

A Utah town is swimming radically against the political current.

The Spring City City Council will consider an ordinance to make it mandatory that every household has a firearm in it:

Spring City Councilman Neil Sorensen first proposed an ordinance requiring a gun in every household in the town of 1,000. The rest of the council scoffed at making it a requirement, but they unanimously agreed to move forward with an ordinance “recommending” the idea.

The council also approved funding to offer concealed firearms training Friday to the 20 teachers and administrators at the localelementary school.

“It sends a statement that criminals better think twice,” Sorensen told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “If a teacher would have had a concealed weapon in Sandy Hook, I think the death loss would have been fewer. If sane, trained people had guns, they could have shot back.”

The measure, which will go before the full council in February for further review, seems to have the support of the council’s five members and many residents in the farming community about 90 miles south of Salt Lake City.

Before you say anything, know this: it’s been done before, but in Georgia:

The town north of Atlanta had little prominence until it passed a gun ordinance in 1982 that required all heads of a household to own a firearm and ammunition.

Kennesaw’s law was a response to Morton Grove, Illinois, which had passed a gun ban earlier that year as a step to reduce crime.

But it also was an affirmation of what gun advocates say is a blanket U.S. constitutional right, under the Second Amendment, for citizens to keep and bear arms. Gun opponents challenge that right and say the language in the Constitution is open to interpretation.

The Kennesaw law has endured as the town’s population has swelled to about 30,000 from 5,000 in 1982.

“When the law was passed in 1982 there was a substantial drop in crime … and we have maintained a really low crime rate since then,” said police Lt. Craig Graydon. “We are sure it is one of the lowest (crime) towns in the metro area.

What does that mean, exactly?

This:

The city violent crime rate for Kennesaw in 2010 was lower than the national violent crime rate average by 85.16% and the city property crime rate in Kennesaw was lower than the national property crime rate average by 46.46%.

In 2010 the city violent crime rate in Kennesaw was lower than theviolent crime rate in Georgia by 85.15% and the city property crime rate in Kennesaw was lower than the property crime rate in Georgia by 56.74%.

While I’m not a fan of the ordinance because I’m not a fan of unnecessary use of force by the government, I don’t think this will cause any harm. If anything, Spring City will be a SAFER PLACE TO LIVE.
After all, despite all the guns, Kennesaw hasn’t had a murder in years.safer place to live.

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