A Zany Night in Georgia

Georgia Governor Signs 'Unprecedented' Gun Rights Bill



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 "House Bill 60, which passed in the final hours of this year’s legislative session, allows Georgians to legally carry firearms in a wide range of new places, including schools, bars, churches and government buildings [and certain areas of airports]. 

A recent analysis also said it could let felons use the state’s “stand your ground” rules to claim self-defense if they feel threatened. Critics have dubbed it the “guns everywhere” bill for its broad scope, and opponents including former Rep. Gabby Giffords have tried to block its passage. 

Supporters have flooded Deal’s office with pleas to sign the measure, which the National Rifle Association called “the most comprehensive pro-gun reform bill in state history.” There was never serious doubt that he would sign it, though. The powerful gun rights lobby has made it their top priority, and Deal doesn’t want to give his two GOP primary challengers any opening. 

Even Democratic state Sen. Jason Carter, his party’s nominee for governor, voted for the bill. Echoing Deal, Carter told MSNBC this week that he believed he helped “make the bill better than it was when it first started.” 

Deal, for his part, tried to downplay the warnings from critics that the law could endanger police officers and lead to more violence."

States With the Most Gun Violence By Samuel Weigley April 15, 2013
  
Georgia:  

Firearm homicide deaths per 100,000: 4.57 (9th highest) 

Firearm  and aggravated assaults per 100,000: 58.64 (13th highest)

Violent crime rate per 100,000: 373.2 (21st highest) 

Need permit to purchase handgun: No 



Why'd they leave out maternity delivery rooms and nurseries for newborns?  Why not bring little Josh and Emily into the world and place a Glock 41 in their precious newborn hands?  Hell, why not guns for our dogs and cats? Our parakeets?  Free guns for every American man, woman, and child and goat!  An armed population is a safe population, and the 33,000 deaths a year (the highest in any developed nation on the planet) proves how safe firearms keep us!  


The Rime of the Ancient Grim Reaper

Day after day, day after day, 
We shoot, our flesh, our bones
As wild as the wild west 
In new wild west zones. 

Guns, guns, every where, 
And all the innocents died; 
Guns, guns, every where, 
The bloody N.R.A.'s pride.

(apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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