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Georgia’s gun laws may hurt Atlanta’s Dem convention bid

February 23, 2023 by Tom Knighton Leave a Comment

The state of Georgia is very pro-gun. The city of Atlanta is less so.

In fact, throughout the years, the one place most likely to try and test the bounds of the state’s preemption law has been the city of Atlanta. They want to restrict guns and they just haven’t been allowed to.

Over the last few months, though, the state’s gun laws have been cited as the grounds for a couple of music festivals to shut down. The reason? Because public property can’t restrict guns from the premises, even if it’s rented out to a private entity.

It seems that fact is being used to undermine the city’s bid to host the Democratic National Convention.

The battle between Chicago and Atlanta over hosting the 2024 Democratic convention is heating up with a new claim from Illinois that Georgia’s lenient open-carry gun laws — already an issue with several public events in Atlanta — could make security a nightmare.

With a decision possibly weeks away, officials involved agree that Atlanta and Chicago now appear to lead New York, the third of the finalists still under consideration. Union officials have for weeks pressed President Biden and the Democratic National Committee to pick the more union-friendly city; Chicago has more than 30 unionized hotels while Atlanta has just two, they say.

But recent events have brought a new argument: Georgia’s lenient gun laws could make it extremely difficult to keep firearms away from the delegates. The Secret Service is likely to declare the convention a “national security special event” and supersede state ordinances with its own rules inside a fortified perimeter.

But in hotels, along bus routes and at meetings and parties far from the core convention sites, guns could find their way in, security consultants are warning, especially if Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, holds to his pro-gun views and refuses to intervene.

“It just creates a tense environment,” said Charles H. Ramsey, who once led police forces in Washington and Philadelphia and now does security consulting. “To me it’s an issue.”

Wait…you mean the state’s gun laws may well be responsible for keeping legions of Democrats out of our state?

Well just throw me in the briar patch, why don’t ya?

Seriously, there’s nothing about this that doesn’t tickle me in unseemly ways.

See, I don’t care one way or another where the Democrats hold their convention. I just don’t. But the idea that our gun laws may keep a pile of them outside of our borders makes me care far more than I should, mostly from the standpoint of this being a hilariously good deal for us.

Yes, I know this will be a hit to Atlanta’s economy, but I honestly don’t care about that, either. I’m frankly sick of the oversized pull they’ve had in this state, and while it’s not as bad here as it’s been in places like New York or California, it’s also just a matter of time before it is.

Unless, of course, there are some hits to the city’s economy that make some relocate to other states.

And frankly, no one else in the state is really going to be upset to see Atlanta take a hit. The perception has been that they’ve drawn in so many resources from our tax dollars, leaving nothing for the rest of us, so many will likely laugh at this one.

We’re definitely not going to be upset in the least.

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Another Atlanta festival shuts down, blaming state gun laws

February 11, 2023 by Tom Knighton Leave a Comment

Georgia is a pretty pro-gun state. The major exception to that is Atlanta.

The city has spent a lot of time trying to circumvent the state’s preemption law and has done so with the support of many of its residents. Now, they’re not really trying all that much anymore, thankfully, but the folks there are still less than pleased.

Now, a second music festival is blaming state gun laws for having to shut down.

Downtown Atlanta is losing a major music festival, seemingly due in part to the fight over gun control.

Georgia law says guns cannot be banned on public property, and for the organizers of SweetWater 420 Fest, it appears that was too great of a risk.

“Guns have no place at music festivals. They just don’t,” said Chandler Darnall, a music festival fan who also used to work security at festivals.

She’s not surprised that SweetWater 420 Fest is leaving downtown Atlanta’s Centennial Park, partially because of security concerns.

“It’s totally reasonable that an event like that would want to control whether lethal weapons are allowed inside,” said Darnall.

Except that it’s impossible to actually control that. As a result, those with no respect for the rules would still be able to carry guns while those who represent no threat at all would be disarmed.

Then again, someone who worked security is going to look at it from that lens and be about what makes life easier for security, not about respecting people’s rights.

However, while this festival cites the law as the reason it shut down, pro-gun voices had some valid points to bring up.

We also talked with John Monroe, vice president of GA2A, a group in Georgia that fights for gun rights.

“The whole point of the law is to make sure people can carry on public property, and if an event organizer wants to be able to prohibit firearms, then in order to comply with state law it needs to have the event on property,” said Monroe.

While the law was passed in 2014, it didn’t come to the attention of festival organizers until last year.

In other words, the law isn’t new and the festival organizers have options besides shutting down. They just don’t want to explore any of those.

Look, I’m big on property rights. I believe private property owners have the right to restrict pretty much any kind of behavior they want, including whether someone gets to speak freely or carry a firearm, so long as they’re free to leave if they don’t like the rules.

But public property is different. Any attempt to restrict my rights on property my tax dollars help fund is an unacceptable infringement on my right to keep and bear arms, especially since they cannot insure my safety. After all, guns were prohibited at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. That didn’t stop a mass shooting there.

And that was in California, which has much more onerous gun control laws as well; laws that were also supposed to stop that shooting from happening.

Let’s not forget about Las Vegas, either. That shooting happened at a music festival where the gunman never set foot on the festival grounds. Centennial Park may not be surrounded by casinos, but it’s also not exactly isolated either.

So yeah, I’m sorry, but the festival organizers could still hold their festival if they wanted, especially if guns are that big of an issue for them. They’re just not interested and would rather try to punish others for state laws.

What they don’t get is that most of the people who supported that law don’t actually care all that much if Atlanta’s economy takes a hit. Frankly, most would think it funny since they’re where most of our state’s anti-gunner come from anyway.

Filed Under: <![CDATA[Atlanta]]>, <![CDATA[Gun Control]]>, <![CDATA[Guns]]>, <![CDATA[music festivals]]>, <![CDATA[Video]]>, Bearing Arms, News

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