An equipment dealer I know lives in Kennesaw, Ga., outside Atlanta,Ga., where it's mandatory for all heads of households to own a weapon and ammo.

Here [www.reuters.com]

and here [www.freerepublic.com] are 2 articles with stats before/after passing the law.

Several years ago a woman had been kidnapped in Florida and an alert was runnin on radio/tv about the perp w/his pic and vehicular description. The kidnapper stopped in Kennesaw for gas where 2 other customers recognized him as he was goin into the store to pay and confronted him when he came out. He pulled a pistol but was a little slow as one or both men shot and killed him. The woman was then found, still alive, in the trunk of his car.

While this is the kind of story gun rights proponents prefer to point to regarding armed citizens, this got NO national press.

Conversely, every wacko with a pistola who even waves it in the air gets days on end worth of press as the anti-gun lobby mounts their high horse and rides such a story for all it's worth.

Go figure