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Fresh off a speech to the National Rifle Association's annual meeting, former - and potentially future - GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum praised a controversial new gun law in Georgia.
The bill, signed by Gov. Nathan Deal last week, will allow Georgians to carry guns into some bars, churches and government buildings.
Critics have slammed the law, calling it the "guns everywhere bill," but Santorum defended the legislation Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation," arguing that if criminals aren't sure whether potential victims or bystanders are armed, they likely won't take the risk.
"I think people do analyze the situation and if they want to accomplish something, they want to kill a lot of people, they're not going to go someplace where someone will shoot back," the former Pennsylvania senator said.
Oh No! Georgia brought their law in line with many of their neighbors!
ReplyDeleteDoesn't this law put Georgia out in front of their neighbors as far as gun-rights goes?
Delete"Pence recently signed a law in the Hoosier State that would allow guns in locked vehicles in school parking lots. Like the Georgia law, it's been blasted by opponents as unsafe and unnecessary around schools.
ReplyDelete"We actually had parents that had a permit to conceal and carry a weapon that were finding themselves guilty of a felony just by dropping their kids off at school. So we made a modest change, a common-sense change in Indiana law, and I strongly supported it," he said."
As I've said earlier, this controversial Georgia law brings it up to the level of the carry law in Minnesota which has been if force for over ten years. So the controversy seems to be produced by gun control advocates who seem to have the same sensitivity to changes that run counter to their goals as some gun rights advocates.
Seems only fair to see how it goes. If the people don't like the law, they'll either change the law through the legislative process, or throw the bums out in the next election.
That's what I'm rooting for, throw the bums out.
DeleteI disagree with him on many subjects, but here he's correct.
ReplyDeleteAgain, another example that Georgia carry permit rules really haven't changed radically.
ReplyDelete"For Oregon gun rights advocates, the question is: What's new about that?
"The changes they've made in Georgia law bring them very close to what we have in Oregon," Kevin Starrett of the gun rights group Oregon's Firearm Federation said Tuesday. "License-holders are free to carry their firearms in most places. So in Georgia, where now they allowed them to carry them in a few more places., it seems long overdue."
http://www.ktvz.com/news/oregon-gun-laws-already-similar-to-georgias/25726106