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How to Understand Georgia's 'Guns Everywhere' Law: Four Blunt Points - Businessweek)
Georgia appears poised to enact a so-called guns-everywhere law, making it easier for firearm permit holders to take their weapons into bars, churches, and even airports. Approved last week by the state legislature, the bill awaits the signature of Republican Governor Nathan Deal, a strong gun-rights advocate up for reelection this fall. His opponent, Jason Carter, a Democratic state senator and grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, voted for the legislation, so enactment seems assured.
Non-gun owners doubtless find all this baffling. Here are four blunt points to sort out whats going on and how to respond:
1. The Newtown school massacre led to guns everywhere. Perverse as it may sound, the horrific mass shooting in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary produced a burst of state-level gun control bills around the country and then triggered a much stronger pro-gun backlash. The counter-reaction has now reached its apogee in Georgia. In the past year alone, 21 states have enacted laws expanding gun rights, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Several states added piecemeal provisions allowing firearms on college campuses or in bars or churches. Georgias politicians, egged on by the National Rifle Association, have gone for broke.
The facts are, more guns does not equate to more crime or more violence. since the end of clintons assault weapons ban the number of guns in america has doubled. crime is down, homocides are down. what we need to control is an illegal element who will be violent, who will own a gun regardless of what useless liberal law gets passed.
Georgia appears poised to enact a so-called guns-everywhere law, making it easier for firearm permit holders to take their weapons into bars, churches, and even airports. Approved last week by the state legislature, the bill awaits the signature of Republican Governor Nathan Deal, a strong gun-rights advocate up for reelection this fall. His opponent, Jason Carter, a Democratic state senator and grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, voted for the legislation, so enactment seems assured.
Non-gun owners doubtless find all this baffling. Here are four blunt points to sort out whats going on and how to respond:
1. The Newtown school massacre led to guns everywhere. Perverse as it may sound, the horrific mass shooting in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary produced a burst of state-level gun control bills around the country and then triggered a much stronger pro-gun backlash. The counter-reaction has now reached its apogee in Georgia. In the past year alone, 21 states have enacted laws expanding gun rights, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Several states added piecemeal provisions allowing firearms on college campuses or in bars or churches. Georgias politicians, egged on by the National Rifle Association, have gone for broke.
The facts are, more guns does not equate to more crime or more violence. since the end of clintons assault weapons ban the number of guns in america has doubled. crime is down, homocides are down. what we need to control is an illegal element who will be violent, who will own a gun regardless of what useless liberal law gets passed.
