Nucla, Colo. Passes Ordinance Making Gun Ownership Mandatory

[jimmy the one]

36. my logic is fine

gsc: Your logic is in error. A law that is passed for one reason can have unintended results. It is possible that the hollow gun ownership requirement may, or may not, have also caused, a drop in crime, even though the intention was as a publicity stunt.

How convenient. So gun gurus can give credit to guns when crime rates drop, then contend the law was not intended to improve anything, if crime doesn't drop. How convenient.

It is impossible to prove that the law had any effect, one way or another, on crime. I will not get sucked into that discussion.

You just called gun guru kopel (amongst others) a liar. He can't give credit to guns if it's impossible to tell, right? thank you.

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 reduced the rate of home burglaries , even though the overall crime rate had decreased by more than 50% between 1982 and 2005

* It's alleged (& likely true, see previous post) that this 65 (other source says 55) burglary figure was inflated by the town's mayor, an avid supporter of the gun law, to transmogrify comparison 'before-after' figures.