25 years... no murders

Did you hear all the stories coming out about a small town in Georgia since 1982? About all the crazy loons running around in Kennesaw killing each other? About the gunfights every night as the town burned so brightly you could see the flames over in Texas? No?

That's because Kennesaw Georgia is one of the safest towns in the United States.

Not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting in 25 years. That's as a victim or as an attacker. 28,189 people live in that town. 28,189 people and not one murder. Not. One.

So how do they do it? Better schools? Prison reform? Superior healthcare?

I think it has something to do with the fact that in 1982 Kennesaw mandated all of their citizens own a firearm.

No, really. Think about it.

Greatly simplifying the matter and assuming there are four people living per house, that's still at least 7,047 firearms in that one town alone. All those guns and not one shooting? All those firearms and not one person killed in 25 years?

So much for "guns kill people". About 7,047 of them have been completely silent for 25 years.

What really bothers me is that all the gun "activists" and people who want to ban guns have the same narrow minded view. They all assume people are as ignorant and hot-headed as they are about firearms. A column by Art Buchwald claimed the city "would (become) a place where routine arguments... would be settled by shootouts." Hey Art, maybe thats how YOU would like to settle an argument, but I bet you would re-think that idea pretty quick if you knew the person you were screaming at had a firearm as well.

And that's another point all those anti-gun people miss. If everyone has a firearm, everyone is going to think twice... about everything. Is it really important? Do I really want to rob this guy if he has a pistol to defend himself with? Do I really want to throw a punch at someone who I just had a car accident with? Do I really need to escalate matters all the time? You think about these things when you carry a firearm. You do keep civil. You do think things through. Détente. You don't pull a firearm out and wave it around or menace people with it. That's a fast way to (a) wind up in prison for life and/or (b) get shot and killed yourself.

I found this article buried online and thought it deserved one more mention. Did you hear about this town on CNN? MSNBC? Or even FOX? I didn't. And you probably won't hear of it from either party in the coming elections either.

You can read the full article (and see where I stole the quotes above) by clicking here.

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