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A great article, IMHO.
He makes some good points that I cannot post here as well. Everything that he said was logical and made good sense. Especially, since the law already has a term for people that cannot be trusted with guns, called "prohibited persons." Such as felons. So having the license is really just redundancy. Nothing is going to change that with unlicensed carry.
Also, you're taking away a tax where some bureaucrat can decide whether he wants you to carry or not. Not so much, Georgia, but in other states as well.
Please go read the rest of the article here: http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-n ... aled-carrySo are some gun owners, opposed that is, including those representing themselves to be "gun rights" advocates. I saw the following response to this story on an NRA-related gun forum:
Permitting carry licenses tend to weed out people who are not responsible. This right comes with huge responsibility. One idiot that brandishes a weapon or shoots an innocent and everything we have worked for in the NRA will be undone. One idiot and the gun grabbers will have all they need.
The law has a term for people it considers irresponsible to even own a gun, let alone carry one. They're called "prohibited persons." Anybody think they refrain from carrying because they don't have a license? And if they're caught with a gun, concealed or otherwise, they'll be arrested. Nothing in Rep. Harmon's bill will change that....
Unpermitted "idiots" already brandish and shoot innocents. We call these people "criminals." It's the permitted carriers the antis are gunning for--as evidenced by Violence Policy Center's "Concealed Carry Killers" project. It's every time a gun owner with a CCW license commits a crime of violence that the gun grabbers have a "we told you so" field day.
He makes some good points that I cannot post here as well. Everything that he said was logical and made good sense. Especially, since the law already has a term for people that cannot be trusted with guns, called "prohibited persons." Such as felons. So having the license is really just redundancy. Nothing is going to change that with unlicensed carry.
Also, you're taking away a tax where some bureaucrat can decide whether he wants you to carry or not. Not so much, Georgia, but in other states as well.