Posted on 01/13/2010 3:12:35 PM PST by greatdefender
As it stands now, you cannot pack heat while listening to the preacher in a house of God.
But bills in both the state House and Senate aim to change that.
Similar bills filed last year in both chambers would, if enacted, change the locations where weapons could be taken and where they are prohibited. State Rep. Timothy Bearden, R-Villa Rica, is sponsoring House Bill 615, which would make it a crime to take a firearm, knife or explosive into a building that has a courtroom, jail or prison.
It would also remove existing restrictions on bringing a gun to a church or political rally, among other locations. However, you'd be required to have a Georgia firearms license permit, which allows having an open or concealed weapon, in order to have your gun at church.
"Do I expect that form of the bill will pass?" Bearden asked.
"No. But that's where I wanted to start. That's where debate needs to take place."
Bearden said his bill's purpose is to clarify the definition of "public gathering" and get a head start on an expected future decision on the Second Amendment by the U.S. Supreme Court.
(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...
I pack almost every Sunday. No one has noticed, or if they have, they don’t care.
We already have this in New Mexico; it’s an open carry state.
I think we need First Amendment suspension whenever two or more homosexuals meet.
Why is that different than the proposal? It’s just a key liberty suspended for nakedly political reasons.
Whoops! Thought the title had “Not” in it. I’m so reflexive given the government’s power grabs, I flinch without reading thoroughly.
36He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. 37It is written: 'And he was numbered with the transgressors'; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment."
38The disciples said, "See, Lord, here are two swords."
"That is enough," he replied.
I just have a really hard time holding it down to two.
“...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”, except in church, political rallies, public places, except when licensed to do so.
Don’t you love how “laws” don’t care about the Constitution.
Then there is Georgia’s Constitution. “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but the General Assembly shall have power to prescribe the manner in which arms may be borne.”
Translation: Shall not be infringed, except if we decide we want to anyways.
Headline should read:
Georgia bill would allow guns in churches, political rallies, as the Founders intended
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