I received this email from a friend.
"The Town of Kennesaw's GA requires all citizens to have a gun in the home and yearly home invasion incidents dropped from 65 to 26 the year after the law went into effect and down to 11 two years after the law. (Makes sense. If you have the option between breaking into a house that most likely has a gun owner and breaking into a house that doesn't...uh...which house are you going to break into?) Also, the town's overall violent crime rate dropped by ~50%, and they still have a crime rate roughly the half the average of the rest of the country.
Compare that to D.C....highest gun violence rate in the US alongside some of the strictest gun laws (ie, stringent background checks, firearm registration, no concealed carry, no open carry, no high capacity rounds, no assault weapons, no peaceable journey--meaning, if you own a gun in another state, you're not allowed to bring it through D.C. if you're visiting or even just using their roads while traveling.) Even with all of those laws on the law-abiding citizens, they have more gun violence per capita than any state in the Union.
Not being one to take anything at face value I had to research the veracity of this as it really did sound too good to be true. Here is what I found.
I spoke with the Police Department in Kennesaw and asked them a simple question. "Does your town have an ordinance requiring home owners to own and have a gun in their home?" The answer? A resounding YES! I was able to confirm most of the facts contained in the above where they concerned Kennesaw from that source and there are many news articles confirming the statistics of the D.C. area.
Yep. Gun control WORKS! Give people control and crime goes way down!
I am to be allowed to interview the police chief and the city PIO later today and will update this after I have done that.
Keep up the fight Tea Partiers! We ARE on the side of RIGHT!
