Amid Wave of Pro-Gun Legislation, Georgia Proposes Sweeping Law

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More than a year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut elicited a burst of gun-control legislation, the Georgia bill shows just how far the counterreaction has spread as lawmakers, mainly in Republican-controlled states in the South and West, pass laws allowing weapons in all corners of society while strengthening so-called Stand Your Ground laws.

Critics say the victories may come at a price as pro-gun legislation pushes up against the limits of public opinion.

“I do think they’ve overreached,” said Laura Cutilletta, senior staff attorney at the San Francisco-based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The Georgia bill, she said, is “so extreme and people do have such a strong reaction to it. I don’t think over all it’s a victory for them.”

The bill was opposed not only by gun-control groups, but also by the state’s police chiefs association and restaurant association, Episcopal and Catholic churches, and the federal Transportation Security Administration. A majority of Georgians also opposed it, according to several polls.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/us/amid-wave-of-pro-gun-legislation-georgia-proposes-sweeping-law.html?_r=0

Of course this travesty of typical right-wing anti-social legislation will be celebrated by those gun fanatics on the extreme right and those who claim to be "Conservative" Democrats.

When this frenzy of "guns everywhere" Republican NRA/ALEC sponsored filfth finally gets to the SCOTUS, maybe -- just maybe -- sanity will prevail and even the right-slanted high court will see a need to curtail the public health menace of guns in our streets, and in places where we shop, dine, worship, relax, and just socialize with normal Americans.

I fully expect to see a wave of "No Guns" signs spring up in Georgia, as the sane people fight back against this abomination.

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1. Sociopaths have no place in society ...

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2. It does resemble

a scene from Deliverance doesn't it?

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3. Southern states and gun deaths

From the Center for a Better South:

Five Southern states are among the 10 in the nation with the highest rates of gun deaths, according to new 2008 data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

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Here is the ranking for Southern states, all of which were above the national average:

•2. Mississippi (19.32 deaths per 100,000 people)
•3. Louisiana (18.47)
•4. Alabama (17.53)
•7. Tennessee (15.78)
•8. Arkansas (15.48)
•14. South Carolina (13.66)
•15. Kentucky (13.42)
•17. Florida (12.67)
•18. Georgia (12.14)
•27. Virginia (10.48)

“The equation is simple. More guns lead to more gun death, but limiting exposure to firearms saves lives,” said Violence Policy Center Legislative Director Kristin Rand. The total number of Americans killed by gunfire in 2008 rose to 31,593, up from 31,224 the year before.

http://www.bettersouth.org/2011/10/southern-states-and-gun-deaths/

The evidence is clear: right-wing politics and NRA/ALEC financial corruption of Southern "Conservative" politicians leads to more gun violence and deaths.