Republicans ? Yes
But the NRA? You’ve drunk the Koolaid. Watch where you get your info.
“There are those born in every generation that mean to rule wisely... But they DO mean to RULE.”
There’s just something about power that turns principled men and women into tyrants.
GA Carry is saying the same thing.
Senators Jesse Stone and Hunter Hill Severely Weaken HB875
NRA has been appeasers for at least two decades. I used to be a member.
Repeal 1986, 1968, 1934 or revolt.
If the NRA truly had our interests at heart, they would adopt the policy they once had, and oppose EVERY piece of gun control legislation. All that is gained in compromise is defeat. It may not come today, but the gun control people are satisfied with incremental wins, because they know that lots of incremental wins will add up to a complete win for them and a complete loss of rights for us.
I would drop the NRA in a heartbeat and switch to the Gun Owners of America, but the local gun range requires NRA membership in order to use their range.
Ex-NRA member here.
There is still a “hunting and skeet shooting” stripe in them at times. They still support Dems who are just waiting to turn on them (Harry Reid.)
I’ll save my money.
More proof that the Republican Party is useless.
I’m afraid we made a big effing mistake when we elected Nathan Deal. He managed to shut down legislation last week that would have banned Common Core. The guy is no conservative. I feel embarrassed that I voted for him.
Legislation to institute constitutional carry has been held in committee for a long time now. You would think with both state houses controlled by republicans they would have passed it by now.
Unfortunately, the group “Georgia Gun Owners” exists primarily to raise funds for its owners, and has had only a negative effect on restoring gun rights in Georgia.
Here’s the inside baseball on this: Gov. Deal and Lt. Gov. Cagle are not pro-gun, but they’re “Republicans” and they know it would be political suicide to veto a gun bill. So instead they make back room deals to kill gun bills in the Assembly so they don’t have to vote on them.
HB875 started as a strong pro-gun bill with no negatives, and passed the House by an enormous margin. It then went to a Senate committee that determines whether or not they send it to the full Senate for a vote.
That committee was chaired by a senator who is up for a $130k/year judgeship that is appointed by Gov. Deal. Since Deal doesn’t want any gun bills to hit his desk, he had the senator rewrite HB875 to water down all its good elements and insert a bunch of bad ones. It was basically a poison pill to ensure that the bill wouldn’t make it out of committee and spineless senators wouldn’t have to make a publicly recorded vote on a gun bill, and Deal wouldn’t have to sign or veto it.
But the House was clever, and tired of the Senate and Governor making secret deals to avoid a public vote on a gun bill as they did in 2012. So they took HB60, which was a relatively non-controversial bill about carry permits for retired judges that had already passed the Senate, and rewrote it to include almost all of the original pro-gun language from HB875. They then voted to pass their new version of HB60 by another large margin.
Because HB60 had already passed the Senate in its original form, the new version does not go to another Senate committee. The Senate as a whole has to vote on it and those votes are public record.
HB875 is dead. It was the intention of those in the Senate and the governor to kill it, and it will not even be voted on in its new form. So its poison-pill language is irrelevant. The only active gun bill in Georgia now is HB60, and it’s a great pro-gun bill as it exists now. It doesn’t have everything we want but it doesn’t have any negatives.
The best action going forward is to call, write, fax, and/or email Deal, Cagle, and your senator, and politely ask them to support HB60 as it’s currently written. Forget about the dead HB875, and remember the old adage about catching more flies with honey.
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NRA is to guns; like the chamber of commerce is to commerce. Not that helpful, huh
Sounds like fundraising bullsh*t from some fringe group trolling for idiots. I hate to see people fall for this crap.
What is going on with the NRA? have they been taken over?