What if we made it mandatory for all citizens over a particular age of [place country here] to own at least one gun, perhaps providing a government issue sidearm free of charge as well?
Perhaps we could go even further and mandate that the gun be visible (in a holster) at all times when in pubic. Some restrictions/exceptions may apply like requiring people to temporarily relinquish them before entering a courtroom.
Kennesaw is a city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area known as "Metro-Atlanta". The city is perhaps best known nationally today for its mandatory gun-possession ordinance requiring all households in Kennesaw to have a gun, with certain exceptions, passed in response to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Illinois. In 1982 the city passed an ordinance [Sec 34-21]
(a) 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. (b) Exempt from the effect of this section are those heads of households who suffer a physical or mental disability which would prohibit them from using such a firearm. Further exempt from the effect of this section are those heads of households who are paupers or who conscientiously oppose maintaining firearms as a result of beliefs or religious doctrine, or persons convicted of a felony.
Nelson in Georgia, Nucla in Colorado, Gun Barrel City in Texas, and Virgin in Utah have also since passed such laws. Most importantly, what effects it had were largely that certain Democrat demographics kept away in fear and vitally it became quickly known that it could not be enforced outside of cultural pressures.
How would these changes affect the culture of interest?
It would gentrify the community over-night, shootings would spike and then die down. Criminal behavior and jail populations would plummet as the morgues become occupied by the dregs instead. Over time, I imagine it would be like the sword carrying Early modern Europeans. Dueling might make a comeback, depending on the case law concerning what would happen if two people shot at each other in a field and everyone involved refused to speak about it to the police. I could easily see such cases leading to duels leading to honor codes back into cases and so on.
Courts would have to thoroughly manage the situation in order to make sure the people dueling were punished rather than let go, in the event that no-one spoke to the police, on the account of no pressed charges by either parties toward the other. Hard to say, but honor codes would be a welcome sight civilizationally from my point of view at least.
Would you support such a policy?
Sure, provided sanity reigned and conscientious objection or disability were given exemption. I would like to live in such a town, and would welcome my section of gun-shy America into the light of proper freedom. However, I don't think my state, one of the worst, is going to allow this to pass. Nor, in the age of sanctuary regions where sub-federal police forces are refusing to comply with Republican federal laws, would many places in America today.
