While I'm all for the idea of people owning, maintaining, and properly knowing how to use a gun, I'm not sure how I feel about a mandate requiring that every head of household have one. There are just some people too ignorant, too useless, and too irresponsible to be allowed sharp objects, let alone guns.
Though I have to admit, it's hard to argue with the results mentioned in the article.
It's not convenient for politically correct-minded people to have to deal with the occasional success of firearm proliferation.
That said, it's awesome that works in a small Georgia town. Should we require everyone out here in Los Angeles to have a gun? HELL. FUCKING. NO.
Gun control needs to be community-specific (your story being proof of that statement, I think). Any politician or pundit who says otherwise is saddly mistaken.
But I will agree with you--stories like this do deserve wider attention, if for no other reason than gun control proponents often need to be taken down a notch and realize that they are not 100% walking with the angels.
Much the same way, as in having a notorious violent crime problem and insane fans of the local professional sports franchise, both of which exceed that equivalent in the major cities of which they are suburbs?
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Though I have to admit, it's hard to argue with the results mentioned in the article.
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That said, it's awesome that works in a small Georgia town. Should we require everyone out here in Los Angeles to have a gun? HELL. FUCKING. NO.
Gun control needs to be community-specific (your story being proof of that statement, I think). Any politician or pundit who says otherwise is saddly mistaken.
But I will agree with you--stories like this do deserve wider attention, if for no other reason than gun control proponents often need to be taken down a notch and realize that they are not 100% walking with the angels.
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