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wrote:
back in the 80's, a suburb of Chicago, Morton Grove, outlawed handgun
ownership. In response to this, a suburb of Atlanta, Kennesaw, passed
a law requiring gun ownership. In the 2 decades since this happened,
Morton Grove has maintained the rate of increase in violent crime of
any Chicago suburbs. At the same time, Kennesaw has had the lowest
rate of property and personal crime and violence. The only 2 handgun
murders in Kennesaw were at hotels there, not in homes in the
community.

You should get your fact straight before you parrot the arguments of
others. Kennesaw has a low crime rate, but not lower than many other
"bedroom suburbs" around Atlanta. If you compare to Massachusetts,
which gun advocates decry as a failed experiment in ultra liberal gun
control (we require a license for ownership), the Kennesaw crime rate is
rather high - double that of many towns in the state. Burglaries, for
instance, are much more common than in the city I live in.

Not sure where you are getting your stats (I live in the Atlanta area
and worked for many years in Kennesaw and am well aware of the local
crime stats, esp. burglary and violent crime rates)

FBI. Of course, I'm not familiar with the various towns and their
demographics, but is easy to find communities in GA with crime rates as
low or lower than Kennesaw. And most of the "bedroom suburbs" in MA
have a much lower rates.

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm