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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
except for Kennesaw Geogia where overall crime has decreased by more than 50% between 1982 and 2005. In 1982 a city ordinance was passed to put a gun in every house in the city.
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No one has ever heard of Kennesaw, Geogia. Switzerland has firearms in every house, yet has a higher gun death rate than the UK which has no firearms.
But let's talk about Kennesaw... They claim to have low crime rates, and then I find this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818862/posts
We are talking about a city with 30k poeple in it, and yet in 2004 they had 172 assaults and 86 Burglaries.... Yet we have this gem: "Gun rights activist David Kopel has claimed that there is evidence that this gun law has reduced the incident rate of home burglaries citing that in the first year, home burglaries dropped from 65 before the ordinance, down to 26 in 1983, and to 11 in 1984." So home burglaries went down from 65 to 26 to 11 and then jumped up 86 in 2004? I mean, I'm not searching too hard for stats here and I am quickly able to disprove your fact.
Let's compare Kennesaw to my hometown of Lincoln, California. Kennesaw has 30k, Lincoln California has 40k. Kennesaw has a "mandatory gun law" and Lincoln does not.
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/lincoln/crime/
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ga/kennesaw/crime/
Kennesaw is safer than 35% of US Cities, while Lincoln is 72% safer than all US Cities? We had a murder in Lincoln which was earth shattering for us, the first in decades.
So my city with no mandatory gun is twice as safe as your town with it?