Georgia Senate OKs Concealed Gun Carry for College Campuses

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Georgia Senate OKs Concealed Gun Carry for College Campuses

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Mar 11, 2016, 2:48 PM ET

Licensed gun owners who are 21 and older would be able to carry concealed weapons on public college campuses in Georgia if Gov. Nathan Deal signs a bill headed to his desk.

The proposal cleared the state Senate on Friday, 37 to 17.

The legislation would allow anyone age 21 and older to carry concealed handguns on campuses if they have the proper permit.

Concealed-carry license holders would not be able to carry firearms into athletic facilities or student housing, including fraternity and sorority houses.

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[deathrind]

1. Good to know.

Georgia can be crossed off the list of potential schools to visit. Thanks.

[Dawgs]

3. The law does suck, I agree, but it will be your loss if you're talking about UGA.

I live in Atlanta and I have a friend that works at Georgia Tech that will be really pissed off.

[deathrind]

4. I respect your opinion.

UGA is a good school, I have mentored several interns from there in my lab. Sad to see them allow this on campus but there are other schools just as good that do not allow this.

Happy Friday to you, I hope you have a good weekend.

[Dawgs]

5. It wasn't the school.

It was the state Republicans.

[daleanime]

2. And I'm sure that they included.....

the Georgia State Senate building also.

[GreydeeThos]

6. There is going to be a backlash in the streets I tell you

Students overly concerned with keeping their guns out of view in the class room will not be paying attention. Grades will suffer leading to fewer graduations.

[theatre goon]

7. It hasn't been a problem in any of the states that this has gone on for some time now...

...so I don't see why it would be a problem now.

The predictions that licensed concealed carry would lead to "Wild West shootouts" and "blood running in the streets" just never seem to come true, whether it's in general or on college campuses -- but for some reason, that doesn't seem to stop people from predicting it again.

Oh, well -- maybe this time, unlike all the other times, the predictions will come true.

Or, much more likely, not. Again. Still.

[TeddyR]

8. This is a non-issue

Or a bit of hysteria created by the controllers. 7 states allow campus carry by law, and 22 others leave the decision up to the individual schools. I'm not aware of any classroom shootouts by people exercising campus carry rights.

[DonP]

9. "Guns Everywhere Georgia"? But, but isn't everybody already dead there anyway?

I was told by "authoritative" DU gun control experts last Summer, that the new Georgia gun laws, e.g, "Guns Everywhere", would obviously lead to a bloodbath any minute.

Still waiting for all the stories of the shootings in parking lots, produce departments, libraries etc. that we were assured were right around the corner.

So I just naturally assumed that there would already be massive murders on campus of course.

Amazing how some people just never get tired of being wrong and making themselves the target of laughter again and again.

[theatre goon]

10. Other than a television meteorologist...

...I can't think of anyone who is allowed to be wrong in their predictions so consistently and still listened to, than those predicting carnage from licensed concealed carry.