Posted on 12/15/2009 3:48:21 AM PST by marktwain
* One year anniversary of HB 89 arrives without dire consequences
Violent crime lower following law permitting legalized carry of firearms on mass transit. Today the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner brings you a story you are not going to see anywhere else.
The Georgia General Assembly passed HB 89 in 2008, which made criminal prohibitions on carrying firearms on public transportation, in restaurants that serve alcohol, in state parks, and in wildlife management areas inapplicable to Georgians possessing a firearms license. HB 89 took effect on July 1, 2008, and many predicted mass bloodshed as a result. Nowhere was the controversy so acute as the city of Atlanta and its public transportation system.
The city of Atlanta immediately declared the airport off limits to firearms, and won a lawsuit filed by GeorgiaCarry.Org seeking to enjoin arrests of people with firearms licenses at the Atlanta airport. The other hot button issue was the carry of firearms on the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit system, known affectionately to Atlantans by the acronym MARTA. People predicted shootouts on the trains and busses, and both the city of Atlanta and MARTA officials lobbied strenuously against the bill.
MARTA bus drivers gathered more than 1,000 signatures on a petition to have bullet proof shields installed, as if Georgia firearms licensees had just been waiting for the new law to pass so that they could shoot a bus driver. "We don't want cameras. Cameras don't save people's lives. ... We want something that gives us a fighting chance," said Terry Jackson, the MARTA driver who started the petition. Beverly Scott, MARTA's general manager, called the bill "vigilantism."
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I'm sure it didn't occur to this moron that a fighting chance means having a gun with him.
I believe the airport thing was settled with the ability to carry up to security but no where else.
Link? Not heard so.
No link, that was just my belief from back when it was a hot issue. I can most certainly be wrong.
“People predicted shootouts on the trains and busses.” What kind of stupid moron made a statement like this? Where in the US has this occurred because people gained the right to carry a concealed handgun?
Seems the last phase saw the city win a court case over the issue. Hasn’t been escalated further yet.
Hence the need for liberty as a sociopolitical priority: that the informed and disciplined need not submit to the ill-informed whims of the hysterical.
This is the organization mentioned in the article. If you live in GA and own a gun, you need to join.
It workrs really swell. I listen to the CPD calls over a scanner and the response time for a bus's Panic Button is great - only about 5-10 minutes. Of course there's the occasional false alarms (like 98%) were the button was pushed by accident.(1)
Hmmm?? Maybe that's why the cops don't drop everything and rush, sirens blazing and lights flashing, to a bus's Panic Alarm? On second thought MARTA should forget about the Panic Buttons and let We The People pack heat.
(1) Police Action Code -- 14 Adam (14: Alarm - Adam: Not Bona Fide Incident)
Because the "local papers" is the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation...
What kind of stupid moron made a statement like this?"
The City of Atlanta is a veritable motherlode of such morons...
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Notice also that the violent crime rate PLUMMETTED without one thug getting ventilated by a CCHL carrier.
A predictable outcome if you know anything about gun owners.
“Hence the need for liberty as a sociopolitical priority: that the informed and disciplined need not submit to the ill-informed whims of the hysterical.”
Very well said!
Good observation. I think that Dr. Lott’s book “More Guns Less Crime” drew the same conclusion. Please never let anyone take your guns from you.
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