Posted on 03/21/2016 1:52:08 PM PDT by marktwain
The Georgia campus carry bill has caused some concern in Governor Deal's office. It is not clear what, if anything, Governor Deal means to do. However, he issued a troubling statement on Tuesday, 15 March, about a day after he recieved the campus carry bill, HB859.
The bill passed the House 113 to 59, and the Senate 37 to 17. A two thirds vote is needed for a veto override. There are sufficient votes in the Senate to override, but the House would be problematical. Governor Deal did not say that he intended to veto the campus carry bill. Instead, his office released the following statement. From gov.georgia.gov:
The governors office released the following statement in response to campus carry legislation passed by the General Assembly:
As a lifetime defender and staunch supporter of Second Amendment rights, Gov. Deal has signed every pro-gun bill to reach his desk. However, he believes legitimate points have been made in regards to certain aspects of the campus carry bill and he calls on the General Assembly to address these concerns in related legislation before Sine Die. Specifically, these areas of concern include dually enrolled k-12 students who leave school to attend classes at a university or technical college campus, as well as daycare centers on these same campuses. Deal also believes the governing boards of universities and technical colleges should have the discretion to set reasonable rules regarding disciplinary hearings and faculty and administrative offices. Addressing these issues is an important step in ensuring the safety and freedoms of students, faculty and staff in our institutions of higher learning throughout our state.The above must be the latest meme floating about the strategy sessions of university power councils, as a way to derail the exercise of Second Amendment rights on campus. The wording is very similar to arguments that were brought before the Alaskan Senate when considering their campus carry bill. In order to consider if prohibiting students who have a Georgia carry permit should be allowed in faculty and staff officies. It means that the school administration could prevent a staff member from exercising her Second Amendment rights in her own office. You could also ask if campus administrators would insists that police officers be disarmed before coming into their offices. Carry permit holders have shown themselve to be far more law abiding than police officers. If the Assembly chooses to grant the faculty and staff of institutions of higher learning in Georgia some leeway to deal with these issues, they should do so warily. The administrations of these institutions have proved to be extremely antithetical to the exercise of the Second Amendment in the past.
Just so you understand Nathan Deal is a natural born RINO. He hasn’t got a conservative bone in his rubber spine. He’s a federal dollar Hoe who has jammed common core down our throats and is threatening the statehouse with a veto on the religious liberty bill they are putting together.
Deal was instruments in watering down the gun law reform that got passed last year. Now he would like to stop campus carry.
Deal is one of those politicians who new he could never get elected Governor of Georgia if he ran as a democrat. Make no mistake, this guy is a rat, through and through. There are many of these rats all over the country, only joining the Republican party in red states because they know full well that they would NEVER get elected otherwise.
We don’t ever see conservative democrat politicians running in blue states just so they can get elected.
Yes, Deal used to be a Democrat and in his heart he still is. I am thankful he is in his last term.
Spot on.
shall not be infringed.
vote out the enemies of our republic.
punish those who do wrong with their tools, and make it severe. things will work out.
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