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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't Go To Georgia Without A Bullet Proof Vest - Guns Anywhere Legal July 1 In Georgia.
Georgia will be the first state to allow someone to carry a gun any where. That includes unsecured government and public buildings. Tourists should avoid Georgia like it is infested with contagious Ebola. This new law is absolutely insane and makes just about everyone unsafe. There will be more accidental shootings than deliberate ones.
And if there are any incidents of the shooting variety the police will not know who the bad guy is. Gun activists are completely demented and insane. And they are willing to force their will on everyone else.
billh58
(6,632 posts)IronGate
(2,186 posts)This thread is nothing more than bunk.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 24, 2014, 02:47 AM - Edit history (2)
since according to you CA unions were too demanding so toyota had to move to Tx.
IronGate
(2,186 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)the jobs that Toyota moved to TX were office jobs, not unionized factory jobs. Those went away when NUMMI in Fremont was shut down -- not by Toyota, but by its partner GM, after the bailout.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)or the differences between one region of the country or another.
Some live in community "x" and expect everyone else in the country to cowtow to what they feel comfortable with.
Some of these folks are young, others are old.
In my experience, they are young and inexperienced, and have not had the benefit of having lived in or visited rural versus urban places, or traveled to other countries.
We gotta be a big tent, let them vent, right or wrong, no big deal.
IronGate
(2,186 posts)Is this one of those "blood running in the streets" predictions? Or is it a "shootout over parking space" predictions?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Georgia native here. Glad I left.
Enjoy your stay.
IronGate
(2,186 posts)Lots of states have pretty close to the same laws as GA and yet....................
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I'm not for one second suggesting that anyone is making that accusation, but it's possible that a reference like that could be made and have nothing to do with your living or not living in the state of Georgia.
Like I said, big tent, have to be tolerant and accept lots of different points of view.
Sometimes, rude behaviors and comments come with that inclusive policy.
I hope your stay at DU is a very long one.
IronGate
(2,186 posts)And I do plan to be here a long time, although I've really cut down on my posting here on DU.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 24, 2014, 04:51 AM - Edit history (1)
Sure there have been absolutely no sovereign critizen attacks in Ga in the last 3 months.
This is just out of the blue completely.
GP6971
(30,944 posts)I have go to twice a year. I was always uncomfortable before, now more so. Although, I did have a good experience in the Deep South. Was in western Georgia and decided to drive into Alabama as I had never been in the state. Took the major roads in and decided to drive back the secondary roads. Didn't get more than 5 miles before I was pulled over by a county sheriff.....not a good situation.......a white boy from the North East driving a rental car in deep Alabama. he asked where I was going and when I told him, he said no your not. He escorted me to the major highway and made sure I got on. Turns out the sheriff saved my ass......where I was going to drive through didn't like strangers......kind of a shotgun reception. The next day, my co - workers were incredulous that I even went up there. For me, a lesson well learned. Won't do that again.
Ilsa
(61,656 posts)Potentially dangerous for anyone driving through that appears to have two dimes to rub together. My friend who lives there won't wear a suit if driving through there and puts his suits in the trunk.
maced666
(771 posts)Nothing in your post remotely relates to my life experiences here. Uncomfortable - about what?
Area that don't like strangers - where?
White boy in 'deep' Alabama - what the hell is 'deep'?!
Fellow progressives are all around me. Neighborhood, coffee shop - work. There's even a statewide trend, upwards trend - blue. And we will get there, sooner than we shake 'deep' south stereotypes and bigotry, which will take a little longer.
GP6971
(30,944 posts)Dawgs
(14,755 posts)I was born and raised in the North and have never had an experience like that either.
Ignorance about the South pops up every once in awhile on DU. Apparently this is one of those times.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)described in your post.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)...is what a moronic dumbfuck would say.
samsingh
(17,548 posts)Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Im guessing July 1st will come and go and nothing will happen so you will have to find something else to be terrified about.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)For their love of guns and hatred of non-whites and liberals.
This happened and I left Georgia.
But I digress...
aikoaiko
(34,113 posts)Really? Have you even read the law?
It's just not true that GA will allow guns everywhere. Yes in some new places starting in July.
former9thward
(31,684 posts)Guess what? Nobody is shooting each other "accidentally". No road rage incidents as predicted. But go ahead, live your life in fear.
Skittles
(152,918 posts)Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Skittles
(152,918 posts)the people who cannot go to fast food restaurant without a rifle are cowards who live in fear
Throd
(7,208 posts)They know it freaks some people out and it gives them a tingle to do so.
Having the right to do something doesn't necessarily mean you should.
dilby
(2,273 posts)As a kid I remember seeing rifles in the back windows of pickup trucks all the time, I remember going into restaurants and seeing people openly sitting with sidearms like they were cops or something. I remember almost everyone had a buck knife on their belt. I also remember I never saw a single person get shot and the only shooting I can recall was the a guy who came up from Phoenix walked out into the middle of the forest and blew his head off. I wrote a story for the school paper on that because it happened 20 miles from my tiny town so it was like the biggest news we ever had.
So all and all I saw a lot of guns but not a lot of violence and I turned out ok. But then I grew up in an area that was not culturally diverse, where I lived everyone was the same, everyone liked hunting, fishing, driving trucks, drinking beers while playing pool on a friday night and listening to country music.
Kablooie
(18,546 posts)Or stays the same.
Too many guns may mean more of them will be used indiscriminately and gun violence will increase.
Alternatively, like the nuclear parity standoff, gun violence may go down because everyone knows that if they shoot, someone will shoot back.
My guess is that shooting of blacks by whites could increase but not vice versa because the freedom to carry a gun without being arrested applies, in reality, only to whites.
former9thward
(31,684 posts)I am sure you will link to where blacks legally carrying guns are arrested while whites are not. I won't hold my breath.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Hmm. Really over the top language in the OP about guns. No links. Substance free. No replies from the OP.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)They don't even make people get permits to carry concealed.
I hear that the roads are almost undrivable from the slippery mess of blood and maple syrup that coats them....
rurallib
(62,328 posts)My daughter and hubby are moving to GA due to a promotion. It is a manufacturing plant. Does the GA law override what is a common workplace rule that no guns allowed on premises?
NM_Birder
(1,591 posts)dawg
(10,595 posts)Right now, I kind of doubt that will be the case.