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 1^st and was signed by Governor Deal on Wednesday April 24^th.  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.