{"id":186245,"date":"2014-03-25T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/25\/yes-they-are-completely-insane-in-georgia\/"},"modified":"2014-03-25T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T00:36:00","slug":"yes-they-are-completely-insane-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/25\/yes-they-are-completely-insane-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, they Are Completely Insane in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/25\/us\/amid-wave-of-pro-gun-legislation-georgia-proposes-sweeping-law.html\">legalized the carriage of handguns pretty much everywhere<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Pro- and anti-gun forces do not agree on much, but they do agree on the breathtaking sweep of the Georgia legislation allowing guns in bars, schools, restaurants, churches and airports that is now awaiting the signature of Gov. Nathan Deal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Americans for Responsible Solutions, founded by Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was critically wounded in a mass shooting in 2011, calls it \u201cthe most extreme gun bill in America\u201d and the \u201cguns everywhere\u201d legislation. The National Rifle Association, which lobbied for the bill, calls it \u201cthe most comprehensive pro-gun\u201d bill in recent state history, and described the vote at the Capitol on Thursday as \u201ca historic victory for the Second Amendment.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The bill was opposed not only by gun-control groups, but also by the state\u2019s police chiefs association and restaurant association, Episcopal and Catholic churches, and the federal Transportation Security Administration. A majority of Georgians also opposed it, according to several polls.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guns in bars, guns in elementary schools, decriminalizing trying to bring guns on planes.<\/p>\n<p>What could <b>POSSIBLY<\/b> go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia has just legalized the carriage of handguns pretty much everywhere: Pro- and anti-gun forces do not agree on much, but they do agree on the breathtaking sweep of the Georgia legislation allowing guns in bars, schools, restaurants, churches and airports that is now awaiting the signature of Gov. Nathan Deal.Americans for Responsible Solutions, founded &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1055,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-gun-laws","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}