On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, jonathon <grafolog@netcom.com> wrote:
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996 JonWienk@ix.netcom.com wrote:
In 1981, the city of Kennesaw, GA suffered 17 violent crimes and 55 burglaries. In 1982, Kennesaw passed an ordinance requiring all city residents to own a
Said ordinance being passed, as a protest against Elk Grove, IL passing an orinance, banning handguns. Anybody know when Elk Grove revoked their ordinance? Crime went down for six months there [ Elk Grove ] after the ban was passed, then it went up --- far surpassing previous crime levels, for all types of crime.
First of all, you are talking about Morton Grove, not Elk Grove. Second of all, the ban was mostly ignored--the first year it was in effect, only 17 guns were turned in. The Morton Grove gun ban was not a statistically significant event. Jonathan Wienke "Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenarios, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." --Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberg organization meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992. Transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates. "A conservative is a liberal who got mugged last night." --Lee Rodgers Key fingerprint = 30 F9 85 7F D2 75 4B C6 BC 79 87 3D 99 21 50 CB