As the nation mourns the 26 lives lost when a gunman opened fire last Friday in a Connecticut elementary school, one incoming representative from Kennesaw is pushing for expanded gun rights in Georgia.
State Rep.-elect Charles Gregory (R-Kennesaw) this week filed four bills, including one that would allow firearms on college campuses and another that would allow them in places of worship.
Gregory told the Marietta Daily Journal that while he filed House Bills 26, 27, 28 and 29 on Wednesday, he began work on them before the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.
That shooting has ignited a nationwide conversation on tighter gun restrictions, and President Barack Obama this week gave a special panel until mid-January to come up with concrete proposals that curb gun violence, according to NPR.
A survey this week from the Pew Research Center found only modest change in the public's attitude toward gun control in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook.
Forty-nine percent of Americans believe "it is more important to control gun ownership, while 42 percent say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns." But nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of the 1,219 adults surveyed "think that allowing citizens to own assault weapons makes the country more dangerous."
The gun that 20-year-old Adam Lanza used to kill 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a Bushmaster .223 rifle, a weapon favored by hunters and the military, according to Newtown Patch.
The Georgia General Assembly does not convene until Jan. 14, but Gregory has already gotten support from the National Association for Gun Rights. The group has urged members to "please contact ... Gregory ... and encourage him to lead the fight to advance gun rights in Georgia."
READ THE BILLS
For further contemplation and analysis, read the bills that Gregory filed this week.
- House Bill 26: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display/20132014/HB/26
- House Bill 27: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display/20132014/HB/27
- House Bill 28: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display/20132014/HB/28
- House Bill 29: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display/20132014/HB/29
- 28-year resident
Then to calm his shaking hand And tried to tell himself at last He had become a man A dusty cowpoke at this Began to laugh him down And he heard again his mother's words Don't take your guns to town, son Leave your guns at home, Bill Don't take your guns to town
What part of the "Shall Not infringe" in the second amendment do you two torks Margaret and Frank not understand? Georgia did not give me the right to carry a gun. God did. Georgia and specifically Kennasaw have just recognizied the fact that God did give me that right and your uneducated fact-less liberal gun banning ideological idiot minds cant get past it.
Sorry, are we talking about the God who said ''when your neighbor strikes you on the cheek, turn to him the other also,'' or are we referring to the one who said ''do not repay evil for evil''? Or was it the one who rebuked Peter for cutting off the guard's ear, saying: ''Those who live by the sword die by the sword.'' Just want to make sure we're talking about the same God here because the guy from the Bible seems like kind of a passifist.
I think whatever gun control laws there are need to spend a LOT more time on intelligent gun safety beyond gun handling safety.
BTW, No one says you can't carry a gun. Semi-automatics are up for debate and regulations are up for debate and even supported by every SCOTUS ruling. I'll trust them for my constitutional interpretations.
http://rightmarch.com/2012/12/protect-our-children-repeal-gun-free-school-zones/
203 Million- Total number of deaths caused by government actions in the 20th century. This includes war (34 mil) and genocide (169 mil). Result: A human living in the 20th century was over 23 times more likely to die as a direct result of the actions of a government than by the actions of a non-political person. Conclusion: The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing. The benefit of the second amendment is not that it guarantees your right to go recreational hunting but that it guarantees your right to protect yourself against tyrannical governments. The evidence shows you are far more likely to killed by a tyrannical government than a homicidal manic. Don’t let your government take away your right to protect yourself!
While 2,800 is shocking and appalling statistic, an even more shocking and appalling statistic is 10 million or 3571 times 2,800. That is the number of Soviet Ukrainians who died as a result of the Holodomor. The Holodomor was the forced starvation in 1933 of the Ukrainian people implemented by the Soviet political elite in retribution for poor food output. Why couldn’t the large Ukrainian population defend themselves against such as monstrous policy? In 1929 the Soviet government implemented a gun ban; therefore, even though they greatly outnumbered the group implementing the policy, the Ukrainians didn’t have the resources available to them to protect themselves. As I’ve already mentioned, this resulted in the deaths of an estimated 10 million people (4 million due to starvation and 6 million due to birth defects attributed to the Holodomor).
The UN calls Sudan’s gun control laws “very restrictive.” In fact, you need to be above the age of 30, pass a physical examination, and obtain a certain socio-economic status prior to owning a firearm for the purpose of self-defense. In practice, very few Sudanese have access to weapons for their self-defense. For the sake of expediency, I won’t go into detail about other incidents where gun control laws preceded genocide of hundreds of thousands of people. However, there are many other examples. Such as Armenia (1915-1917) 1.5 million killed, China (1948-1952) 20 million killed, Uganda (1971-19790 300,000 killed, and Cambodia (1975-1979) 2 million killed.
Guns and teenagers. Turning fights into murder since 1683.
"When the people fear their government, their is tyranny; When the government fears the people, their is liberty - Thomas Jefferson" A spurious quote according to the experts on Thomas Jefferson. Most likely attributed to by a socialist, John Barnhill, in 1914. http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/when-governments-fear-people-there-libertyquotation