Ok, so this is really old news. Still it is nice to see that other communities are following Kennesaw's lead and enacting ordinances mandating firearms ownership. Virgin, Utah passed a law similar to the one Kennesaw Georgia passed in 1982, and the wording is almost the same. Both ordinances require the head of a household to own and maintain a firearm. Exempted are those precluded from owning firearms, gun fearing wussies conscientious objectors, and those who cannot afford it.

Sadly, most of the people that I tell about the Kennesaw ordinance think that I'm making it up. Actually, had I not lived in East Cobb (just outside incorporated Kennesaw), I probably never would have heard of it myself. For all you non-believers out there, Kennesaw offers the ordinance on their web site, and backs it up with crime statistics. Notice that although population has grown from 5,000 to 20,000 people the literal number of crimes (not just per capita) is still lower than what it was prior to the ordinance. Also, debunking the myth that guns corrupt people just by being available, statistics show that less than 2% of "part 1 crime" (violent crime, theft, and arson) in Kennesaw involves firearms.