By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has signed legislation expanding where law-abiding citizens can carry firearms in the state, including some government buildings, and – by permission – schools and churches.
The new law takes effect July 1.
Under the improved carry law, armed citizens can carry into bars without restrictions. Also, school districts could allow employees to carry “under certain conditions,” and people might also carry in places of worship, so long as the church allows.
The bill-signing ceremony came on the eve of the 143rd annual National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis. It also came just one week after anti-gun billionaire former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s rocky launch of his $50 million so-called “grassroots” gun control effort, “Everytown for Gun Safety.”
That project has turned into a huge pro-gun grassroots rout, with scores of pages showing up on Facebook for every state, and in some cases, local communities. Some states have more than one Facebook presence.
According to published reports from the Washington Times and Associated Press, “a few hundred” gun rights supporters were present for Gov. Deal’s bill signing ceremony. Anti-gunners from the Georgia Gun Sense Coalition held an event in downtown Atlanta to honor “gun victims.”
While the local press has dubbed this the “Guns Everywhere” law, that is not entirely accurate, but it has allowed anti-gunners to create that impression. A look around the country reveals that, with millions of citizens licensed to carry into places in their states that Georgia’s expanded law will now allow, there are rarely any problems. Most of the time, if firearms are concealed properly, nobody is any the wiser.
