Dam% right and jars ablazin!
Posted on 08/18/2016 8:58:27 AM PDT by rktman
“We find that permit holders are convicted of misdemeanors and felonies at less than a sixth the rate for police officers,” the report says. “Among police, firearms violations occur at a rate of 16.5 per 100,000 officers. Among permit holders in Florida and Texas, the rate is only 2.4 per 100,000.10. That is just one-seventh of the rate for police officers.”
It's probably the most polite town in the US, with a zero crime rate.
Dam% right and jars ablazin!
“Kennessaw if I spelled it right. It was a kind of requirement but if you didn’t want one, no problem. I don’t think their crime rate was that high to begin with. Anyone? ...”
Kennesaw, in Cobb County, Georgia, enacted the mandatory-ownership statute in 1982. About 35 miles northeast of Atlanta’s city center, it did not have a terribly high crime rate, but what it did have fell by almost 90 percent after the law went into effect.
Very broad exemptions were included and enforcement has never been pushed. Authorities allowed “I don’t want to own one” as a valid reason not to.
Some have speculated that Kennesaw passed the law as a symbolic gesture, to show their disagreement with Morton Grove, Illinois, which had banned guns earlier. No one in Kennesaw looked on their law as enforceable.
Since then, anti-gun organizations have taken increasingly stronger stances against laws mandating ownership, insisting on the inclusion of so many loopholes that no enforcement would ever be possible.
And I would bet no group is more lawless than those age 18-35 who vote democrat.
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