‘You must own a gun’: Georgia town passes mandatory firearms law

[L0oniX]

<>Welcome to Nelson, Georgia, a rural town about 50 miles (80 km) north of Atlanta that passed on Monday the ‘Family Protection Ordinance’, which requires the head of each household to own a gun and ammunition.

“We’re making a statement,” City Council member Jackie Jarrett told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “If you plan on doing us harm, we’ll be armed.”

Jarrett emphasized that the law grants liberal loopholes for those who do not wish to follow the new legal code.

http://rt.com/usa/gun-control-us-nelson-obama-nra-207/


Heard about this on NPR today. Turns out most of the people of that town already own a gun. I think the town is trying to make a statement "I am stupid".

[darkangel218]

1. lol! nt

[HockeyMom]

2. It can sit and rust in a closet

for all you will use it if you don't want to. Have had guns in my household for 40 years. Don't know how to use them or the combination to "his" safe.

[L0oniX]

3. I wonder how they plan to make sure people own a gun. Mandatory home searches? n/t

[rdharma]

5. Skeeter will check door to door.

[L0oniX]

11. ...and these guys will be his backup...

[rdharma]

21. Cletus and Billy Bob!

Dang! It's a posse, y'all! Yeeeeehaaaaw!

[unblock]

6. Lol! Exactly, sounds like jack-booted thugs will be

Doing door-to-door searches to make sure you are complying. Bye-bye fourth amendment!

[Bay Boy]

9. Oh you are so funny...

...did you miss the part about 'liberal exceptions' granted?

[unblock]

16. Lol, ok, I guess that means zero enforcement.

Look, if the gun-confiscation paranoids can play the silly hyperbole game, so can I

[cali]

10. they don't. as it says in the article you posted, you can opt out.

[LeftofObama]

4. I would damn sure be headed to jail

because I won't allow a gun in my home!

[unblock]

7. I have a hunch

That not too many people who think as you do would choose to live in Nelson, ga....

[Tempest]

8. A "mandatory" law with several exemptions

Apparently the government of Nelson isn't quite sure about the definition of "mandatory".

[brer cat]

13. It does have more than one syllable. nt

[slackmaster]

12. The purpose is to piss off as many people as possible

And it's working.

[NightWatcher]

14. Kennesaw, Ga did this years ago. It's a statement to criminals

to think twice before breaking in. It's a feel good proclamation.

[L0oniX]

17. Dude on NPR was saying that most of the town people own guns anyway ...so it's an attempt...

by them to make a statement "I/we are stupid".

[RebelOne]

23. I lived in Kennesaw for a few years when I first moved to Georgia.

Personally, I think it is a good law because Kennesaw has the lowest crime rate in the state. I live next door to Kennesaw in Woodstock and we also have a very low crime rate.

[NightWatcher]

30. That law would've backfired in Norcross where I lived

We traded a commute from Cornelia near Gainesville to get out of Norcross. Damn, I don't miss commuting anymore now that I'm retired to Florida.

[Marr]

15. Everybody in town purchases a gun. Gun store makes $80.

How many people live in that place, anyway?

[L0oniX]

18. Skeeter, his wife/cousin, her sister & her husband/brother, people who work for the NRA, ect. n/t

[gulliver]

19. People with no experience forced to buy guns. What could go wrong?

Someone's kid is going to get shot with one of these mandatory guns. Then I wonder how the City Council will explain it to the parents. "We were making a statement."

[cali]

22. nothing. because no one is being forced to buy a gun. Using the word mandatory

and allowing anyone who doesn't want to have a gun to opt out, means it's not actually mandatory; it's just bullshit.

[gulliver]

24. Suppose you are uninformed and don't understand that "mandatory"...

...doesn't mean mandatory. So you go out and get a gun, because you didn't read the fine print. Or you get a gun, because you believe the false message being conveyed by the law, that guns for protection are a good bet. Or you don't want to be the "outsider" who tries to opt out when "everyone else" is opting in.

Some people will have guns who would not have had them. Some of those will be people who should not have had them. One tragedy with one of those guns happens—a fatal gun accident, a suicide, a murder, a robbery—and the City Council will be hiding from mirrors the rest of their lives. All for a dumb, false message.

[shenmue]

20. I posted this a day or two ago...

but I think I'll do it again. Heard it on the radio a couple years ago. Laughed my butt off.

[maxsolomon]

25. Paranoia - NO ONE IS PLANNING TO DO YOU HARM

of course, maybe SOMEONE is - it can't be 0%. but it's not bloody likely. like another poster said, this place has a very low crime rate.

a larger # of people might be planning to take your stuff, but that's it. they don't want to harm you. they want to rob you. & ideally, they'd like to accomplish that without adding assault or worse to their possible charges.

you have a gun for protection BECAUSE YOU ARE AFRAID.

the Culture of Fear.

[L0oniX]

26. Dude on NPR said the crime rate in the town was virtually 0 ...but I bet that there are

plenty of drunk and disorderly ...and maybe riding a horse while intoxicated.

[muntrv]

27. Hey Jarrett! How's your gun going to stop a computer hacker from stealing your identity?

[L0oniX]

28. Fear my 100MB OC3 DOS gun!

[SoCalDem]

29. Nelson, GA pop 1311 (2011) city-data info

Maybe the population will be less in future years ( as attrition takes hold)


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Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Nelson-Georgia.html#ixzz2PRxj3DFG

Population in 2011: 1,317. Population change since 2000: +110.4%
Males: 651 (49.5%)
Females: 666 (50.5%)

Median resident age: 35.9 years
Georgia median age: 40.0 years

Zip codes: 30151.
Estimated median household income in 2009: $45,606 (it was $44,250 in 2000)
Nelson:

$45,606
Georgia:

$47,590
Estimated per capita income in 2009: $20,397

White alone - 1,207 (91.9%)
Black alone - 59 (4.5%)
Two or more races - 23 (1.8%)
Hispanic - 15 (1.1%)
Asian alone - 7 (0.5%)
Other race alone - 3 (0.2%)
Ancestries: United States (31.2%), English (12.3%), German (5.9%), Irish (5.4%), Scottish (3.8%), French (3.7%).

[L0oniX]

31. "Females: 666 " Oh noes! n/t