GUN SAFETY?
Georgia’s “Safe Carry Protection Act of 2014,” becomes law on
July 1st and was signed by Governor Deal on Wednesday April 24th. The law expands the right to carry to
schools, churches, bars and airports.
It will take years to reverse the extreme laws sailing
through the Georgia General Assembly.
But it took only a few hours on Wednesday to demonstrate just how absurd
the new Georgia gun law is. On the same
day that the bill was signed, a man with a gun visible in the waistband of his
pants terrorized children and their parents in a Forsyth County park. Police received 22 calls to 911. All to no avail. He was doing nothing illegal. The children hid. The soccer games were called off.
RPC’s Stand Your Ground nemesis Georgia Carry defends Guns
Everywhere with the canard that unregulated gun toting makes Americans safer. The Forsyth families in the park didn’t feel
very safe on Wednesday. Georgia Carry
was reduced to contacting the man with the gun and urging him to cool it.
Ironically, Forsyth is one of the reddest of Georgia’s 159
counties. Mitt Romney defeated Barack
Obama 80-18 in the November 2012 general election. The County’s population is 2.5% black. Those old enough will recall that Forsyth
drew Oprah Winfrey to town for a race relations Town Hall meeting after the
Klan marched there. Yet, when parents
are confronted with a real world experience of Tea Party/ALEC/GOP extremism,
they reach out for help. Next time, they
should not call 911. After all, Guns
Everywhere is the law in Georgia.
Instead, call the Governor, or the state legislature...or even Georgia
Carry.
Janice L. Mathis, Esq. is Vice President of the Rainbow PUSH
Coalition. She and Robert H. Patillo
have filed suit on behalf of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition against the state of
Georgia to invalidate its Stand Your Ground law.
Georgia’s “Safe Carry
Protection Act of 2014,” becomes law on July 1st and was signed by
Governor Deal on Wednesday April 24th. The law expands the right to carry to
schools, churches, bars and airports.
It will take years to
reverse the extreme laws sailing through the Georgia General Assembly. But it took only a few hours on Wednesday to
demonstrate just how absurd the new Georgia gun law is. On the same day that the bill was signed, a
man with a gun visible in the waistband of his pants terrorized children and
their parents in a Forsyth County park.
Police received 22 calls to 911.
All to no avail. He was doing
nothing illegal. The children hid. The soccer games were called off.
Ironically, Forsyth is
one of the reddest of Georgia’s 159 counties.
Mitt Romney defeated Barack Obama 80-18 in the November 2012 general
election. The County’s population is
2.5% black. Those old enough will recall
that Forsyth drew Oprah Winfrey to town for a race relations Town Hall meeting
after the Klan marched there. Yet, when
parents are confronted with a real world experience of Tea Party/ALEC/GOP
extremism, they reach out for help. Next
time, they should not call 911. After
all, Guns Everywhere is the law in Georgia.
Instead, call the Governor, or the state legislature.
