An ordinance passed in Geuda Springs, Kansas, requires residents to have guns and ammunition, and fines those who don't comply, the Associated Press reported Nov. 23.Okay, so if you can't handle a gun, can't afford a gun, or don't want a gun, you don't have to get one. Hmmm. So just who is covered by this ordnance ordinance beyond those who'd have guns anyway?
City Council members in the small south-central Kansas town passed the ordinance this month, saying they want to protect the 210 residents. The town has no local police force.
"This ordinance fulfills the duty to protect by allowing each individual householder to provide for his or her protection," said Councilman John Brewer. "This is simply using the U.S. Constitution - Second Amendment in particular - to the city of Geuda Springs' advantage."
Those who violate the ordinance would be fined $10.
The measure exempts those with physical or mental disabilities, the poor, and people who are vehemently against firearms.
Odds on this particular example of "nutty laws" making the rounds of the right-wing media machine: 1 in, uh, just how many guns are there in this country?
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