The Opposite of Banning Guns

The debate surrounding guns brings out a bunch of interesting stories.  But this one is pretty interesting:

No town in the U.S. has been as public about its support for guns as Kennesaw, population about 30,000, where city leaders for 30 years have required that every household have at least one gun. The Dec. 14 killings of 20 children and six adults, the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, has done little to change that, residents say in interviews.

The state of Georgia allows citizens to carry guns openly as long as they hold permits, in a region where guns have long been prized and firearms are part of the culture, Crowe said.

“It’s ingrained in us,” he said. “It’s about responsibility as much as anything and I am passing that on to my kids.”

Kennesaw, about 30 miles northwest of Atlanta, had about 5,000 people when its City Council adopted an ordinance requiring heads of households to own a gun and enough ammunition to use it, said police Lieutenant Craig Graydon, 47, who’s fielded questions about the law for 26 years.

An interesting take indeed.

 

One response to “The Opposite of Banning Guns

  1. And yet they enjoy a disproportionately *lower* crime rates than their neighboring counties. This even in a suburb just north of Atlanta. Indeed an armed society is a polite society, and criminals move on to those safe (or is it ‘ripe for the picking’) “Gun-Free” zones.

    http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/07/the-most-pro-gun-low-crime-city-in-the-united-states/

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