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Kennesaw is also a rural town of ~33K, so the proper measure would be whether it has lower crime compared to similarly sized cities. Sources are somewhat mixed but it sounds like even the local law enforcement attribute the safety there to other factors in addition to their unenforced mandatory...

To be fair this sounds less like a problem with squishy prison abolitionists (as USDAs are appointed at the federal level and not elected locally) than a problem with the general incentive systems of DAs, which are to bring low cost, high certainty prosecutions. It's a complicated issue to be...

I'll set aside your point about criminals, which is well taken but it's true whether permitless cc exists or not and to criticize the merits of the law it's best to assume someone who is otherwise carrying legally under it. For pure bars - that is, establishments with no other purpose - yes...

I grew up shooting guns and own several myself since before COVID. Unlike the hysterics and the newly minted wannabe preppers with more disposable income than sense (we call them "loot boxes"), I didn't need COVID to convince me of the benefits of responsible gun ownership. It is precisely...

And yet every day, hundreds of millions of people in the developed world without stand your ground laws get along just fine and don't become "prey." Despite all its faults, our society is such that for the vast majority of people things like stand your ground laws - a modern invention, by the...

This is true of most guns, obviously - the vast majority are used for things other than mass shootings. But let's not play dumb and pretend like it wasn't favored by those who did most of the really major mass shootings of the last 10 years or so. It's not a mystery why, just from a practical...

All due respect but if you think every person who wants to CC should be able to without a permit or even a cursory showing that they know how to properly handle a firearm, you just haven't spent enough time around other people, let alone other people handling firearms.

None of which is inconsistent with common sense gun regulation like age restrictions, permit requirements for conceal carry, more thorough background checks, restrictions on ownership if you have certain things on your record. People can work themselves up over gun bans all they want but even a...

Your theory of crime is that the kinds of people who would do a mass shooting are also the ones paying attention to whether their local DA is tough on crime or not?

Then stop complaining when someone does a mass shooting. Surely you've heard the one about sleeping in the bed you make?

Incredible suggestions here, truly. Yes, let's aspire to be Haiti - a literal failed state. Gangs control something like 60% of their capital city, and citizens who have taken the law into their own hands before have ended up getting burned in their houses as retribution by the gangs. And how...

Right. I understand the underlying law, and what the decision does in this particular case by striking down that law. But it is not "not a big deal."

Disagree, both on the practical outcome and the longer term legal implications. Practically speaking, this will result in considerably more guns being carried around New York. Whether that results in higher or lower crime, we'll just have to see, but it will certainly result in more gun...