Nucla, Colo. Passes Ordinance Making Gun Ownership Mandatory

[jimmy the one]

30. publicity stunt?

gsc: Kennesaw has not had a gun death in 25 years. I don't know about Morton Grove. BTW - They lifted the ban after the Heller decision.

During morton grove's handgun ban period, it consistently had a lower violent crime rate than kennesaws (& later both kennesaw's zip codes) by about 30%, & consistently had a lower property crime rate than kennesaw, sometimes parity in one zip.
Evidently you are correct, I thought it was after mcdonald that MG lifted handgun ban.

gsc: Like this law, they made exceptions for those who couldn't afford one, or who were conscientiously opposed. IOW, nobody really had to buy a gun. The law was a publicity stunt after Morton Grove, Il, outlawed all handguns in the city.

Just a publicity stunt? gunworld sure strutted a lot how the burglary rate fell in kennesaw right after the 'publicity stunt', assigning the stunt's gun requirement the reason for the drop in burg.

wiki: Gun rights activist 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. Another report observed a noticeable reduction in burglary from 1981, the year before the ordinance was passed, to 1999. A 2001 media report stated that Kennesaw's crime rates continued to decline and were well below the national average, making citizens feel safer and more secure. Later research claims that there is no evidence that [the law] reduced the rate of home burglaries [in Kennesaw], even though the overall crime rate had decreased by more than 50% between 1982 and 2005