November 26, 2003

Kansas Town Requires Gun Ownership: Everybody Sing, "Janie's Got a Gun"

Okay, I absolutely love my home state. I am proud to be a Kansan today!!!

Apparently, the Geuda Springs, Kansas' gun mandate fits town's history

The City Council voted 3-2 earlier this month to require heads of households to equip their homes with firearms and ammunition. Violators would be subject to a $10 fine. People who suffer from physical or mental disabilities, paupers and people who conscientiously oppose firearms would be exempt. . . .
. . . City Council member John Brewer, who initiated the ordinance, said he thinks it is necessary for protection in a community that has no police force, marshal or money to protect its citizens.

If you've driven I-55 between Lincoln and Bloomington/Normal you've seen the rhyming-couplet signs extolling gun rights and this website: GunsSaveLife.com

And, continuing the gun theme, and in celebration of this wacky news, here's the lyrics to Aerosmith's Janie's Got a Gun

Posted by Clifton at November 26, 2003 10:11 AM | TrackBack
Comments

The GunsSaveLives placards are on I-72 between Springfield and Decatur, too. I think I saw some in Wisconsin...funny.

Posted by: justin at November 26, 2003 11:35 AM

Actually, I do-- one of my dad's shotguns-- but the only things I've ever shot were targets on the edge of a cornfield.

Posted by: Jane Ellen at November 26, 2003 07:30 PM

All kidding aside, I think this is a good idea. I believe it is Switzerland that has a similar process where every able bodied male is in the militia (trained for a week or so every year) and each household has an army issue automatic rifle. The fact that their gun violence is almost non-existence does seem to support the assertion that it is not guns, but culture itself that makes America so (relative to Switzerland) violent. My family does not have a gun in our house, but I would not hesitate to purchase one if I thought it necessary to protect my family. It is not the instrument, but the reason of the act that our Lord will judge us when we stand before Him. Unless you subscribe to that sort of pacifism of Quakerism or that a-historical "Orthodoxy" of the OPF (Orthodox Peace Fellowship) then you do not twist "Turn the other cheek" into "Sacrifice your wife, children, and neighbors lives on the alter of "Peace""...

Posted by: Christopher at December 2, 2003 08:37 AM

Check this story out:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104564,00.html

What I find particularly interesting about this story is the neighborhoods response to the problem of these dangerous beasts. What does modern man do in the face of wild beasts taking over his neighborhood? He picks up the telephone! That's right, others had been attacked - the danger was a known quantity and so the response was to create an "informal telephone network" where the neighbors would call and warn each other that the beasts where near. To bad it took a persons death for the right thing to finally happen - the animals where finally gunned down. God save me from my neighbors!

Posted by: Christopher at December 2, 2003 10:21 AM

I do not understand what, about Geuda Springs law, deserved the ridicule with which the story was posted. What's the analysis? (Yeah, I know this thread is ancient; I'm just a newby enjoying reading the archives.) Thanks -- RL

Posted by: RL at May 11, 2004 09:55 PM