Nucla, Colo. Passes Ordinance Making Gun Ownership Mandatory

[jimmy the one]

32. MG v Kennesaw stats

gsc: I said nothing about crime rates.

That's immaterial. If you say it's a publicity stunt then gun guru kopel has no right to claim it was a reason for a drop in burglary rates in kennesaw soon after implementation. Nor does the kennesaw cop I cite below, nor anyone else.

gsc: A law that is not enforced and designed to be unenforceable, amounts to nothing more than a publicity stunt. Their goal was to flip the bird to MG, and by extension to gun banners, nothing more.

I don't disagree it wasn't some kind of hocus pocus, perhaps to counter da grove, but here is what an apparent kennesaw cop said back then: Police Lt. Craig Graydon said: “When the Kennesaw law was passed in 1982 there was a substantial drop in crime {untrue, burg rates went down} … and we have maintained a really low crime rate since then. We are sure it is one of the lowest (crime) towns in the metro area.”a progun link tho, mostly propaganda: http://www.wnd.com/2007/04/41196/

gsc: I simply noted that they haven't had any gun deaths. However, most small communities don't have gun deaths in any given year, or decade for that matter. Outside of large cities gun deaths are fairly rare.

City crime comparison tables prior to 2008 heller, are pretty much gone now, & only list post 2008 stats, but I had followed the comparisons for about 10-15 yrs & Morton Grove consistenly outperformed Kennesaw in violent crime (~30% lower) & property crime, & parity in murder (as you say so little it was under 2 or 3 in each city yearly, iirc).
The crime rate stats between the two cities have been similar to the 2010 stats below, for the whole time I've been observing, with the exception that kennesaw has since split into 2 zips & for one property crime about parity (but MG slightly better), the other MG about 30% less property crime:
2010 Crime Rate Kennesaw, GA Morton Grove, IL US
Total Crime Risk ...56 ..........35 ........100
Murder Risk ........27 ..........15 ........100
Rape Risk ..........46 ..........42 .........100
Robbery Risk .......38 ..........15 .........100
Assault Risk .......16 ..........47 .........100
Burglary Risk ......54 ..........41 ........100
Larceny Risk .......64 ..........83 .........100
AutoTheft Risk .....67 ..........33 .........100
http://www.clrsearch.com/Kennesaw-Demographics/Ga/Crime-Rate?compare=morton+grove+illinois