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Jezus, and they scream about us taking guns AWAY!
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 6:25 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:In Georgia, town requires gun ownership Nelson, a small Georgia city north of Atlanta, is requiring the head of virtually every household to own a firearm, the city's clerk told CNN Tuesday. The community's five-member council voted unanimously to approve the measure Monday night. The proposal was modeled on a similar law in nearby Kennesaw, a measure that has been on the books since 1982. Nelson, which numbers around 1,300 people, is the second city in the state to mandate gun ownership. "In order to provide for the emergency management of the city, and further in order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefore," the ordinance said. People with physical or mental disabilities are exempt from the law, as are "paupers," felons, and those who oppose gun ownership based on belief or religious doctrine. Councilman Duane Cronic recently said that the law would give every family the right to protect themselves and their property "without worrying about prosecution for protecting themselves." http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/us/georgia-gun-requirement/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 7:37 AM
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 9:51 AM
NEWOLDBROWNCOAT
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:10 AM
Quote:are the exceptions for felons and paupers really code words for "black folks?"
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:19 AM
FREMDFIRMA
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 12:19 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Sooo, you pay taxes to employ police and buy their guns and ammo, AND they're gonna FORCE you to pay for guns and ammo too? Why oh why didn't we let the South secede when we had the chance??
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 5:51 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Quote:are the exceptions for felons and paupers really code words for "black folks?" I would guess they have ways of making that the case...Either that, or maybe they figure the African Americans in the slums, etc., ARE already armed, they're what's being armed AGAINST, so what the hey... but that may be MY own prejudice, too...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 6:34 AM
PENQUIN11
Quote:Originally posted by NEWOLDBROWNCOAT: I find this difficult to reconcile with my notion that all small town white southerners in any position of power are racists, more or less publicly. Do they really want all of the black households down there in the slums, or "the bottoms", or the black neighborhood, whatever they call it, to be armed? Or are the exceptions for felons and paupers really code words for "black folks?" I will admit that that is MY notion, MY prejudice, MY bias, not necessarily supported by facts. But I would walk into the town looking out for any sign of that.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 7:41 AM
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 11:46 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2:The problem, Penguin, is that even a minority can exert power to harm others, and if the South doesn't have the "biggest" minority of racists in America, they definitely have the most POWERFUL one.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 12:09 PM
Quote:Originally posted by penquin11: Quote:Originally posted by NEWOLDBROWNCOAT: I find this difficult to reconcile with my notion that all small town white southerners in any position of power are racists, more or less publicly. Do they really want all of the black households down there in the slums, or "the bottoms", or the black neighborhood, whatever they call it, to be armed? Or are the exceptions for felons and paupers really code words for "black folks?" I will admit that that is MY notion, MY prejudice, MY bias, not necessarily supported by facts. But I would walk into the town looking out for any sign of that. Sweeping generalizations are not very nice. I have lived my entire life in the South, and there is racism present, and it isn't that rare. However, racists make up a minority of the general population. "But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it the most?"- Mark Twain
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