Friday, April 04, 2008

GOP Insanity In Georgia

The Atlanta murder rate is 520% higher than the national average. The Georgia GOP has an idea. In the current state legislature session that ends to day, is a bill that would make it legal to carry a gun with a permit in myriads of public places such as state parks, historic sites, restaurants, public transportation...that's right you could carry your gun on MARTA. Supporters say the bill has a good chance of passage.

Granted these are people that have had a background check and are licensed to carry a weapon but this is absolutely insane. Why would someone feel it necessary to pack heat when visiting the Martin Luther King Historic Site or even when riding a train downtown from the burbs?

A lot of people such as the restaurant owners association and others were assured that this idiocy was off the table for this session but the supporters brought it back in the last minute hoping that in the rush to do something with the 300 pending bills it would just get passed which is probably what will happen. Maybe Governor Perdue will have a moment of sanity and veto it though that is unlikely.

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