When it comes to America's response to gun crime, one Georgia town has been thinking outside the box since 1982, when its leaders passed a law requiring it citizens to own a firearm.

The Kennesaw, Georgia, law states that "every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm," according to CNN, and was reportedly passed as a deterrent to crime.

"It was meant to be kind of a crime deterrent," Kennesaw Police Lt. Craig Graydon, a 30-year law enforcement veteran, told CNN. "It was also more or less a political statement because the city of Morton Grove, Illinois, passed a city ordinance banning handguns from their city limits."

As for would-be criminals looking for an easy mark, judging by the crime statistics it seems most have bypassed the Georgia town and moved on to easier targets. Even CNN was forced to admit that Kennesaw, populated by 33,000 people, has only had "one murder in the last six years and a violent crime rate of below 2%."