Citizens Of Georgia Town Are Required By Law To be Armed

Carlos and I have had many discussions on guns, gun owners, gun rights, gun laws, gun control; why people have them at all. And, while I can’t see myself ever owning a gun, I do respect the rights of people who choose to own them, responsibly, though I long for stricter controls on who can buy a gun, what kinds of guns and ammunition, and where, and background checks. Which is why this story, although it comes from Georgia, is utterly ridiculous in my mind.

The town of Nelson, Georgia, about 50 miles north of Atlanta, has passed a law that requires, REQUIRES, its citizens to own a gun and ammunition; it’s gonna be the law! And one moronic councilman says that arming every citizen, by force of law, is akin to putting a security sign in your front yard to deter criminals.

Now, to be fair, you won’t get penalized if you don’t have a gun, and you can ‘opt out’ of owning weapons, and, well, luckily, if you’re a felon or a nutjob this law doesn’t apply to you, but the law does state that it requires the head of every household to own a gun and ammo to “provide for the emergency management of the city” and “provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants.”

Lawmakers in this backwoods, back-water cesspool of inbred insanity say their new law is meant to pre-empt any future attempt by the federal government to confiscate guns, even though no one with a brain that fires on all cylinders thinks that the feds will do that, or even could do that. The ordinance passed 5-0 on Monday night and takes effect in 10 days.

Councilman Duane Cronic—“Some people have security systems, some people don’t, but they put those signs up. I really felt like this ordinance was a security sign for our city.”

Heath Mitchell, Nelson’s only police officer, says that since his town is far from the two nearest sheriff’s offices, having a gun would help people protect themselves. Or shoot someone.

One cool head in Nelson belongs to Lamar Kellett, who spoke against the law at the last hearing; he the ordinance was pointless: “People who want a gun, they already have one probably. There’s been no violent crime in Nelson in the past 10 years. So how are you going to improve on no violent crime?”

I don’t see an improvement; I see falling IQs and rising crime.

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