This is kind of shocking! Could this be a fake news item or is this a true statistic? The video seems to be genuine! Is it possible that criminals who would like to break into homes fear being shot in this town? Could fear of death actually deter some types of crime???? https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=162593634440694 One murder in six years in Georgia City that requires gun ownership.
CNN reported on this............ CNN has been accused of doing fake new items but.............???? https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/06/us/kennesaw-georgia-gun-ownership/index.html In this American town, guns are required by law By Omar Jimenez, CNN Updated 2:22 PM ET, Wed March 7, 2018
Wausau, WI, is statistically slightly safer when comparing violent crime (the 4 categories of it lumped together) to Kennesaw. But Wausau has that heavy emphasis, year-around outdoor sporting tradition that Kennesaw doesn't have at quite the same intensity. Fear of death does have influence on people in general. We look up the crime statistics before traveling to any locale, and we might change our route just to avoid even driving through some places that are high on the crime statistic list. We definitely avoid Milwaukee, WI, like Ebola, and even Madison, but have little concern about our safety in Lacrosse, which is also slightly safer than Kennesaw. Extremely long sentences under very harsh conditions are the best way to fight crime and make the land safe for the law-abiding. I'm not sure how much the sociopath personality of the criminal fears death -- but if one is shot dead in the act they are definitely deprived of further opportunity to do crime.
I'm not even going to google it because you should have before asking us if it was fake. Takes like 30 seconds dude.
I was already pretty sure it was genuine..... but I knew that no matter how many articles that I dug up on it there would still be a significant percentage of posters here who would think it was fake. The CNN article is good enough for me...... because this is not the typical type of story for them to do.
Good find. Yes, I think that both the video and the CNN article are supportive of private gun ownership just as it is equally plausible that a small, well armed city could go for 6 years without a murder. Americans are becoming safer with firearms than ever before(1) even though there are more firearms in America than ever before in our nation's history. "Gun sales at all-time high, accidental gun deaths at record low" https://www.onenewsnow.com/science-...time-high-accidental-gun-deaths-at-record-low EXCERPT "Recently published statistics show that as gun sales in the United States have hit record highs, accidental gun fatalities have simultaneously sunk to record lows. The announcement by the National Safety Council (NSC) has taken ammunition away from the gun control activists, who have argued for years that fatalities and injuries in America increase as the number of firearms in citizen’s hands rises."CONTINUED
That is EXACTLY what I am thinking as well........ and I am Canadian so we tend to look at this topic a little differently.
Seems true @Spooky http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/03/...ry-head-household-own-gun-mayor-discusses-law GA Town Requires Gun Ownership: 'Something for a Potential Criminal to Think About' As the gun control debate rages on, one Georgia town has a local law mandating that “every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm.” Moi Anyone within 75 Miles of the border should be required to own a gun!
I don't know about murders but I fully expect America to have less burglaries due to gun ownership. I see no reason why this story can't be true. Nevermind.It's fake. Georgia "City". Population 33,000. True headline = No murders in small town Sleepy Backwater.
Where I live, there is no requirement for gun ownership and there hasn't been a murder in over 27 years and that's in an area of almost 40 sq miles so I think that gun ownership does not make a difference.
More likely there just isn't a criminal culture there, and nothing there to attract it. Of course, its certainly worth exploring further to determine if there is any causality.
We havn't had a murder in decades either, and no law requiring guns... but they're everywhere regardless. We had a suicide not long ago, but it was by hanging. Theres gunshots all the time, but they're from the surrounding countryside, never in town, and never any casualties (ppl just like to shoot stuff, and apparently they're doing so safely). But this is just par for the course in small town america. Rampant crime is the result of urbania. Too many people are like too many rats- they go crazy and kill eachother for no reason.
My nearest town of 33,000 is St Ives. No murders in living memory and this is the norm in my country for towns of this size. I heard gunshots out the back of my house yesterday. Country life.
Interesting indeed! Tommy Robinson stated that England was amazingly peaceful when he grew up but.........
