Andy Sharp/Staff This weathered bumper sticker referring to the Kennesaw ordinance requiring gun ownership is on the door of Wildman's Civil War Surplus store.
Posted on 02/19/2007 2:41:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Good for them! It should be the law all over the U.S.
I live in Kennesaw, have gun, but I have no idea where it is. In the pantry, behind the peanut butter, I think. But I love the law, and so does every pistol packing mama (and grandmama) I know.
...will there still be room for the "Wild West" image often associated with the ordinance?
Strange. In nearly every old “Wild West” movie and TV series the towns had “No Guns Allowed” ordinances.
I wonder if the good women of this town greet men with the "is that a six shooter in your pocket or your just glad to see me?"
Most of those old Wild West movies where some gang rides into town and terrorizes it's citizens are complete Hollywood fiction. 99% of the citizens in those towns had guns, could shoot very well, all the way down to the children. Bad guys riding into town would have faced a barrage of lead from all sides.
Lady definitely needs a belt to stabillize/retain that IWB clip-on holster...
The caption on the photo states that the lady with a gun has a permit for it, but you don't need a permit to pack a gun at work, only the permission of the owner.
Calling the AJC a "newspaper" is false advertising. All the news that's fit to slant!
Ping.
Then there's the fact that the "Wild Wild West" was pretty tame by the standards of, say, modern U.S. urban ghettos.
Look at the demography. The West was largely settled by men who had fought the Civil War, and their direct progeny. These weren't lily-livered wimps likely to put up with much bad behavior, before taking care of business with firearms.
Dang, I should have read the thread first. See my previous post just above.
The Urinal/Constipation's circulation continues to drop, but they just don't catch on that the with the exception of the welfare recipients, McKinney Democrats, and Decatur liberals to whom they pander, the rest of the citizens aren't interested in hearing their leftwing anti-freedom pro-government propaganda. Pravda South just had a big reorg and cut in circulation area, and yet they keep it up.
And in real life too. Most Old West cow-towns had ordinances against carrying firearms within city limits. In Texas in the 1870s you had to prove that you were a "traveler" to legally carry a firearm on your person.
They really have some pretty strong competition in the Washington Compost and the Baltimore Scum, but, as I told one of my friends who subscribes to the rag for the coupons, Those people are your enemies and the enemies of everything you believe in, and supporting them will cost you far more in the long run than you will ever save in a few coupons for things that you probably won't buy anyway.
Most of those old Wild West movies where some gang rides into town and terrorizes it's citizens are complete Hollywood fiction. 99% of the citizens in those towns had guns, could shoot very well, all the way down to the children. Bad guys riding into town would have faced a barrage of lead from all sides.
That was the reality - but the Hollywood version was far from reality. I spent some time Out West, and checking out old newspapers and historical markers, I found very few mentions of Hollywood style gunfights.
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