Posted on 03/13/2016 6:55:52 AM PDT by marktwain
he Georgia campus carry bill is moving forward. On February 22, the House passed HB859 113 to 59. The bill has a number of compromises. It bans guns at athletic events, which would likely pass Constitutional muster. It also retains a ban on guns in housing, including the privately owned housing of fraternity and sorority houses. On 11 March, the Senate passed HB859 37 to 17. From wsbtv.com:
Georgia’s state Senate voted to approve a bill allowing licensed gun owners to carry concealed weapons on public college campuses.
The proposal backed by the National Rifle Association won support from a Senate panel on Monday despite opposition from the powerful governing board for the university system.
It is worth noting that the reporter correctly wrote that a powerful lobbying organization was against the bill; the governing board for the university system. Universities have become bastions of disarmist power.
Governor Deal is likely to sign the bill. On 28 February, the Governor defended the bill. From ajc.com:
Gov. Nathan Deal and House Speaker David Ralston on Monday defended legislation to legalize firearms on college campuses, with the governor saying the existing argument against it “lacks validity.”
The bill has yet to be enrolled and sent to Governor Deal. From ga.gov:
GOVERNOR’S SIGNATURE/VETO
Governor may sign bill or do nothing, and bill becomes law. Governor may veto bill, which requires two-thirds of members of each house to override.
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When I was in high school, ROTC was required for all boys. Part of it was riflery, including gun safety and target practice.
Don’t require it to exercise the right. That’s used too often to infringe the right when someone needs it right now.
Do require teaching hands on gun safety & use in schools.
I think basic gun handling courses, and the laws of self defense, should be available in all high schools, rather like driving classes.
But they should not be mandatory in order to have a gun. We have seen too much abuse of that sort of power.
It is like literacy tests to vote in the old South. Governments in New Jersey, New York City, Maryland, Hawaii, Connecticut, and California, have no respect for the Second Amendment, and will use any tool to undercut it.
Any discussion of this issue should bring up the point that obtaining a Georgia Weapons Carry License requires you be at least 21 years of ago. So the typical frat kid wasn’t going to have his CCW. It would only be older, presumably more mature students for which CCW would even be a possibility.
If you’re attending classes at GA Tech or GA State, especially evening classes, there are some crime statistics that make CCW a desirable course of action.
Government is instituted to protect the rights given to us by God. Our rights do not and never have come from government. Thank you to the Georgia legislature for protecting this right.
I live next to one of the most violent campuses in GA, GSU. My daughter is in the GSU library most every day... and often to 2 am. The GSU library is violence central at GSU. When have you ever heard of having to close down a LIBRARY due to violence?
The bad guys already are carrying at GSU. We would feel safer if the good guys also carried. The bad guys would then look for easier pickings.
Maybe they would go to the State Capitol complex, which is immediately adjacent to GSU.
Yes. Good points. Well said.
I was taught gun safety by experts, family members who always had guns in the home.
One of my favorites was a brilliant, fabulous, and fascinating woman whom I adored. I overheard her say, back in the 1940s, when I was a child, that she had guns that were not registered and would never be registered. So brilliant was she that she rose from poverty--by her wits--to become very rich.
Another was a brilliant uncle, a self-made man who also became very rich--by his wits. Once, walking through the woods on his large estate, I remember, I was a child, he told everyone to break his gun for safety purposes. He then recounted how he had said that to a group of his guests a few weeks before and that one of the men replied: "I never break my gun because you never know what" (meaning what animal) "might suddenly come up in the woods." My uncle and his son-in-law agreed that that was the last time that man would ever be invited to the estate.
This uncle also taught me that "there is no such thing as an unloaded gun" meaning that one NEVER assumes that the gun is unloaded. Even this did not prevent a shotgun from firing very close to me when one of the guests unintentionally neglected to unload his gun. Fortunately no one was hurt, but it brought the message to all of us loud and clear (literally and figuratively).
Ok, let me get this straight. The bill would allow a college student to carry a gun on campus. However that student would be banned from storing their gun in campus housing (dorms, frat houses) which, I believe, students are required to live in for their first couple years. So where are they suppose to keep their gun? In their vehicle? What if they don't have a vehicle on campus as many college students don't? Are they SOL?
Yes, and the law only applies to students who have a concealed carry permit, which can only be obtained if you are at least 21.
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