Georgia governor Nathan Deal signed into law, effective July 1, the most
liberal gun carry legislation in the country. The popular Safe Carry
Protection Act of 2014, known by anti-Second Amendment adversaries as
the “Guns Everywhere Law,” passed with by-partisan support in the State
House 112-58 and in the State Senate 37-18.
The legislation still requires a background check and good standing
with the law for the license, and is extended to the permit holders of
28 states that issue CCW permits. The law exempts government buildings
and airport terminals having security personnel, but other government
buildings and airport facilities are not exempted. Churches, bars, and
schools have the right to exclude guns in their facilities should they
wish to. Police are no longer permitted to hold a person “for the sole
purpose of investigating whether such a person has a weapons carry
license,” which was a concern to some law enforcement personnel, but
firefighters and emergency responders could be armed. This last measure
was in response to a man recently having held firefighters hostage in
his home. This would never have happened had they been armed.
Governor Deal in his address prior to signing the law cited passages
of the Declaration of Independence as the authority behind the new law
and quoted from its principle author, Thomas Jefferson.
“The strongest
reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms, as a
last resort, is to protect themselves against the tyranny in
government.”
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