School shootings

Georgia has passed a law allowing guns in public schools.

Georgia also passed, some years ago, a ban on guns inside the Capital Building in downtown Atlanta.

Sadly, I read this very short story about a 7 year old being shot 'accidentally' in a public school. No details yet on who had the gun or why. No full reports on the injury to the child. The child could be dead.

So, if I can, I will report on guns in schools and children shot by parents, teachers, and other adults.

Because, guns don't kill. Parents, teachers, cops, firemen, adults, and students kill.

Let's have some real conversations about guns, violence, and what's best for our communities

I've heard a lot about the community forum on racial profiling.

So, let's chat. Hypothetical, of course.

So some white guy walks through a black neighborhood with his backpack. No one flinches. He stops and ask directions. People are helpful.

He enters a Methodist church by a side door during a public meeting. There are no seats in front. The meeting is in process. He's asked to move to the back. Okay so far.

He speaks to a couple people in the back, moves further into the room.

The backpack gets heavy and he shifts his position. He studies the people in the room and the panel. It's damn boring. Most of the panel isn't watching the room. Some one is speaking from the podium. Only the audience seems to listen.

The backpack gets heavier and the guy shifts again.

Three people on the podium have looked at him. A tall man, maybe the preacher of the church, is moving towards the back.

The preacher speaks to a few people. Someone, an elderly man, asks the guy if he wants a seat. The guy replies, 'Thank you. I'm fine. Thanks.'

The preacher is standing next to the guy so the guy puts the backpack down. Slowly. Carefully. Very carefully.

He speaks to the preacher, 'Can we talk over here?'

The preacher and the guy go in another room. The guy says, 'I don't think I fit in here.'

"No. Come with me.'

They start towards the front of the room, the minister says, 'Bring your bag.'

There's only one seat up front, next to the chief of police, a very friendly guy. Very friendly. As in, Hey. How are you doing. Good to see ya here.'

The guy sits quietly, hoping things will be fine. He's asked to stand up. He does. He's asked to repeat what he said in the other room. He does.

Now, no body asks him for ID. No one follows him as he leaves. No one inspects his backpack.

So what was in the backpack?

Cool-Aid. Red Cool-Aid. It doesn't matter. The Chief of Police didn't open it.

Now what if the guy had carried a loaded AK47 into the room as allowed by Georgia law?

What if the guy had a professional quality camcorder on his left shoulder like the shooter in Virginia?

More importantly, what if the conversation on guns and violence intensifies and deepens?

Change for the better in the community and more safety for the individual?

Or should our greatest national debate tomorrow be exactly what it was yesterday, 'Donald Trump's hair ... It's real!'

Georgia law allows gun sales in vending machines.

The new vending machines were opened today with a public ceremony featuring Governor Nathan Deal, Judge Judy, and three other idiots.

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“Millions of people in Georgia lack access to quality firearms,” the governor said in a signing statement. “This bill will finally bring handguns from top manufacturers into every neighborhood and hopefully every household.

“By helping more Georgians to defend themselves, we expect this bill to lower crime significantly. By the end of my second term murder, rape and armed robbery should be nearly eradicated.”

I only wish I had made this up.

Another Zimmerman?

A guy named Zimmerman walks up to a bunch of kids at a bus stop.

Hey! You wanna see the bullets in my gun? No? Then shut the frack up. You think I'm joking. This bullets got your name on it.

Yeah, I make up the dialogue but it's pretty close to what he said.

So it's early in the morning, Zimmerman wearing his conceal carry weapon walks out to the bus stop. Why? To make the kids be quiet. And, the idiot took his conceal carry with him and didn't keep it concealed.

Couldn't make it up. I just want to thank Goobernator Nathan Deal for his guns at the bus stop law.

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Guns everywhere stance already kills innocent bystander

Self defense is a bitch if you've been drinking. It must happen like this:

Someone bumps your elbow just as you're lifting your beer bottle. Instead of hitting your mouth with gently rounded lips of a high quality beer bottle, your stick your nose in beer. Snorting warm beer and rich beer foam, you turn quickly to identify the careless lout who spilled three cents worth of your $3.75 beer.

Following standard Cowboy bar protocol, you snarl, "Watch it, buddy!"

Robert DeNiro spins around with a cocky look and says, "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?"

Then, things move outside for more theatre and weak insults. Insults outside bars used to be so robust and nearly lethal in the days before the Guns Everywhere Law. Since then, no one really cares to whip out a cutting 'Yo Moma' quip. Now it's whip out the semi-auto 9 mm with 17 shot capacity, a bayonet mounted on the accessory rail.

Yes. A bayonet not a laser sight. Only a wuss uses a laser sight in a bar shooting.

Triggers are gently massaged. Steely eyed combatants close one steely eye to save their night vision and exchange salvoes.

Now here's the next set of rules, if you're wounded but standing, you stagger around in front of the onlookers saying, 'He shot me. Look. I'm shot. Why did he have to do that?'

If you're on the ground, wounded or not, shout, 'Help me up. I'm going to kill that guy who killed me before I die. I swear.'

If you're unwounded and still standing after your 17 shots, Run! Run like hell you coward because you've probably shot 17 innocent people killing at least one.

Story in the AJC on the most recent bar fight turned deadly for the innocent at this link, AJC