Posted on 08/01/2022 2:54:34 PM PDT by Callahan
TThe long-running Music Midtown festival at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, scheduled for Sept. 17-18 with headliners My Chemical Romance, Future, Jack White and Fallout Boy, has been called off, according to a statement issued by festival organizers. The likely cause, industry sources tell Billboard, are recent changes to Georgia gun laws that prevent the festival from banning guns on to the publicly owned festival grounds...
… While owner Live Nation didn’t provide any additional details for the cancellation, pro-gun rights groups had been emailing and posting comments of the festival’s social media page for several months, hinting at potential legal challenges from gun groups following a 2019 ruling that expanded a 2014 Georgia law that critics had dubbed the “Guns Everywhere” law….
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“My Chemical Romance, Future, Jack White and Fallout Boy...” Uh, yeah. Sure. Hallucinogens, hundreds of Robert Crimo types among tens of thousands of young people,... What could go wrong? Drugs and firearms don’t mix.
In midtown Atlanta, I doubt any court decision would make a difference about guns.
Here’s the Twitter announcement by Music Midtown.
https://twitter.com/MusicMidtown/status/1554104695211294721
I know without looking at it that If you want to troll a bunch of Leftists whining about this, the r/Atlanta thread would be fertile ground.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/wdid0v/official_due_to_circumstances_beyond_our_control/
Not only that....what is to prevent someone with a gun OUTSIDE the event perimeter start shooting? Or scouting the crowd looking for someone to rob and getting them after the concert outside of concert perimeter?
Bottom line...you cannot be 100% safe anywhere,,,gun control or not.
Good riddance to that garbage music festival.
Agreed. We need to see more of this to include companies forced to close because customers will not go into their gun-free death trap locations.
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