Yes, the open carry of loaded weapons is a legal right. The Guns Everywhere law was signed by our Goobernator Nathan 'I am stupid' Deal and went into effect on July 1st.
Last night, about 10:40 pm, a tourist from Texas was walking down Main Street in our German themed town of Helen, Georgia. Some open carry dude on the other side of the street shoots himself in the hand. The bullet passes through his hand, goes across the street, and wounds the 68 year old woman. She dies on the sidewalk.
Guns don't kill people in Georgia. Accidents don't happen here either. People make bad choices and they suffer the consequences. That's the word on being poor, being a teen aged mother, on college students being raped, etc, etc, ...
So I'm waiting to hear about the evil decision in Helen. Was it the Goobernator making open carry a legal right? Or, was it being a visitor in a tourist trap?
Local story here.
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carrying openly has always been legal in georgia it stems from english common law. and the practice can not be banned see Nunn V Georgia
Bob, Playing with your Open Carry in public seems a lot like indecent exposure.
No one enjoys it like you do.
But, in the guns anywhere law, no one may question a drunk carrying a gun on a crowded street in a tourist town.
No one.
It's against the law to question anyone with a gun.
North Georgia Democrats You do realize that is the same argument that was used to disenfranchise black men after the civil war right?? Because they would have civil rights with the 14th amendment I guess things never change...
I'll even cite to Authority to make it easy for you.
Whitthorne noted that the proposed Civil Rights Act, today's title 42 section 1983, would allow suits by any person "who conceives that he has been deprived" by state action "of any right, privilege, or immunity" secured to him by "the Constitution of the United States." Whitthorne added that if a police officer seized a pistol from a "drunken negro," "the officer maybe sued, because the right to bear arms is secured by the Constitution ..." Cong. Globe, 42d Cong., 1st Sess. 337 (1871).
Cattle thief,
You know it's not the 1800's any more?
You can step into the modern world. It's scary. Verbal. Witty. Diverse. Fun.
More fun than playing cowboy.
Try it.
Let's play, Cowboy Bob.
You're quoting Stephen Halbrook, not the Congressional record. Page 337 of your cite does not name an individual speaker for that statement. I wish it did.
So we are discussing Tennessee Representative and later Senator Whitthorne, former Adjutant General in Tennessee's Confederate Army? Who escaped Federal prosecution while held as a prisoner of war? The one given a pardon by President Johnson?
Pretty much a racist before the war and pretty much a racist after the war.
How about another quote from him ... from the same page?
"I willingly pay tribute to the loyalty of the negroes, as a mass, to their masters, during the war; they were faithful and true."
So racism in the South hasn't changed with political orientation or time.
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