On Wednesday, Georgia governor Nathan Deal signed the Safe Carry Protection Act of 2014 into law. The law greatly expands where Georgians with concealed carry permits can carry a gun, including bars, churches, school zones, government buildings, and even some parts of airports.
Critics of the law have called it the “Guns Everywhere” law. That sounds fine to me. I’d love a society in which it was as reasonable to assume a person was carrying a firearm as it was to assume s/he had a wallet or car keys.
This should be an excellent opportunity to observe what happens to the crime rate when the number of armed, law-abiding citizens in public places greatly increases.
To Georgians who are now terrified of the ubiquitous bloodbath that inevitably awaits, I offer the following advice: move somewhere with much stricter gun laws so you’ll feel safer.
Like Chicago.
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