Georgia New Pro-Gun Law - the Teachable Moment Goes On
I’ve held off on commenting about Georgia’s brand spanking new bipartisan Fondle Your Firearms Everywhere Act because it took a while to comprehend how staggeringly moronic it is in terms of public policy, and how staggeringly cynical the politics behind it are. Make no mistake. If it weren’t for the massacre at Sandy Hook, we probably wouldn’t be looking at this plump turducken of pure stupid. Once that happened, and once the reaction to it began to catch fire, the gun industries and the cult that keeps them in business saw not a disaster, but a main chance. They ginned up fear among their customers and they ginned up fear among cowardly legislators, and the situation in many places got much worse than it got better in the few places where there actually was reform. And now we have this law which shows how much we really learned from our national teachable moment.
Most of the attention has been paid to the various places in which Georgians can now visit strapped, and they are interesting indeed. (The airport? Really? Bars?) But what is genuinely fascinating in how securely the law fastens pro-gun absolutism to the law. A stand-your-ground law is expanded. The governor’s power in this regard is further limited. It runs roughshod over local control. It eliminates even the most rudimentary forms of record keeping. (Gun dealers now don’t even have to keep sales records any more.) It even does a bit of a tap-dance around full faith and credit; nobody can maintain a data base over “multiple jurisdictions,” whatever that means. Law-enforcement is divided on the subject. One thing’s for certain — it’s going to be a gold mine for trial lawyers around the state.
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