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Because bears frequently roam the isles of grocery stores in Alaska?
So this person should leave their gun in the car where it can be STOLEN by criminals or found by a kid who may steal her car? When you carry a firearm you are responsible for knowing where is and controlling access to it at ALL TIMES.
Then go live somewhere where there are no guns and see how civil it is.
There are no places with "no guns".
What there are, is places where guns are restricted or banned by law... which means, people who obey laws don't have them. Guess who that leaves with all the guns.
Go look at the prison population. Now go look at the racial mix of gang bangers. Now look at the racial mix on Wall St. Now look at the racial mix of killers?
There is basically little to no crime in this town to begin with. Property crime is like 3% and violent crime is .22% If it drops any lower the city will be creating new life out of thin air.
Must not be a "diverse" city.
Now as long as they keep their children off of SSRIs and anti-depressants, they wiill have no worries at all.
Kennesaw also had a low crime rate before passing their ordinance for people to have a gun, basically it shows that neither adding more guns or taking away guns doesn't matter much to gun violence. I am however for drawing a line with what people can and can't own because there are weapons out there that are meant to simply do a lot of damage quickly.
And it has went down even further since the inception of this law.....wonder why?
Yeah, it went from none to none, big change there.
FWIW:
"Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city’s crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township’s crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.
This was not what some predicted.
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"Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city’s crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township’s crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.
This was not what some predicted.
So they had 2, maybe 3 violent crimes over an undisclosed period of time, and are now 4 times larger but basically still a safe sleepy suburb?
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When you carry a firearm you are responsible for knowing where is and controlling access to it at ALL TIMES.
