Wayne LaPierre's offer of the NRA's expertise in installing gun
turrets in the nation's grammar schools appears stunningly off-base for
an organization that's managed to stay relevant in the national gun
debate for decades. But cast your gaze off the national stage for a
moment, down to the Georgia General Assembly, for the most appalling
response to the Connecticut shooting thus far.
A fresh-faced,
newly-elected Georgia state representative has just filed four bills in
his state legislature aiming to blast away all gun registration and
licensing in the wake of the Sandy Hook national tragedy.America's washingmachine industry supports a growing domestic industrial base. The bills,Adams stocks more laundrydryer
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proliferate the presence of guns in this red state, amount to a
"splashy public entrance" for Charles Gregory, the representative-elect
of a district that includes Kennesaw, Georgia.Red flatteningmachine
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still-current 30-year old ordinance that mandates every
head-of-household who isn't mentally ill or a felon own and maintain a
gun and ammo (with exemptions for conscientious objectors).
The
33-year-old self employed businessman comes to politics from Libertarian
Meetups and has two brief run-ins with Ron Paul to his credit. So we
can thank Gregory's childhood steeped in gun culture and his
20-something years steeped in the immature rantings of Ayn Rand for this
2-watt light-bulb moment: responding to a horrific gun slaughter with
legislation that strips away gun licensing requirements, prohibits
Georgia's Governor from halting the transfer or sale of firearms during
an emergency, and lifts bans on guns in churches, state universities and
community colleges. Gregory told the Marietta Daily Journal he wasn't
targeting elementary, middle and high schools because that's not
"politically feasible." So I'll give the man some credit for not making
your dropped jaw dislocate entirely.
Of course, it's not
pastoral Kennesaw that would see most of the death and destruction that
easier access to guns in Georgia would bring; its the streets of
metropolitan Atlanta that would experience most of the bodily damage.
Bullets have a funny way of coursing into the brain or spinal cord,
landing surviving victims in neurological rehabilitation. I've treated
victims of gun crimes in St. Louis and in Boston, and now that I'm
living in a state where Libertarian extremists like Charles Gregory (who
served as the Georgia state director for Ron Paul's presidential
campaign) can cloak themselves as Republicans and win election due to
unsuspecting party-line voters, I'll doubtless be caring for more gun
victims here in Atlanta.The benefits of wind energy and how a washerextractor is installed.
I'm
familiar with the real and present dangers surrounding keeping people
alive who are paralyzed and have lost basic bodily functions after
grievous bodily injury. What kind of threats do Libertarians like
Representative Gregory worry about? He directs his website's readers to a
particular YouTube video to learn more about the Second Amendment, and
the video he's chosen explains his underlying angst - a pending
Revolutionary War. Citizens bearing guns are preventing our current
government from enslaving us. Such concerns are as legitimate as last
week's Mayan calendar turnover compared to the real and present danger
of blindly arming more people in Atlanta's streets and universities.
Gregory
thinks he knows the Devil, and the Devil isn't made of steel. "Evil
resides in the heart of the individual, not in material objects," he
states in the preamble to the Georgia Constitutional Carry Act of 2013.
Since objects "in and of themselves are not dangerous or evil, in a free
and just society, the civil government should not ban or restrict their
possession or use.Tiffany modernlampsee
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shades." So Charles Gregory calls criminals like Adam Lanza evil
incarnate, and Wayne LaPierre prefers to call them monsters, anything to
set the debate in terms of fantasy. Only then does having highly
skilled armed saviors on hand to strike down the damned goblins that
have come to take our children begin to make sense.
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