Fun With Guns: What the hell, Georgia? Edition
Well, Georgia made it legal to carry a weapon anywhere you damn well please and one Georgia resident took that to mean he should scare little league baseball players just because he can.
A Georgia man panicked parents and children at a local park and baseball field by randomly walking around and displaying his gun to anyone he encountered in the parking lot.
According to witnesses who spoke with WSB-TV, the man wandered around the Forsythe County park last Tuesday night showing his gun to strangers, telling them “there’s nothing you can do about it.”
“Anyone who was just walking by – you had parents and children coming in for the game – and he’s just standing here, walking around [saying] ‘You want to see my gun? Look, I got a gun and there’s nothing you can do about it.’ He knew he was frightening people. He knew exactly what he was doing,” said parent Karen Rabb.
The police got 22 calls to 911.
The police arrived, the man showed his permit, and he was allowed to stay even though the police were careful to note that his behavior was “inappropriate.”
Inappropriate? Ya stinkin’ think?
Next week, there will be a shoot out because “there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Y’all, seriously? That’s the kind of world you want to live in?
Thank to Old Mayfly for the heads up.
And there’s the special provision to encourage carrying in bars.
1Nothing like a heaping helping of alcohol and firearms to liven up a Saturday night, eh? These people are truly, ferociously nuts.
Have they exempted polling places?
2What’s next – legalizing dueling? After all, the duelists could claim to be “standing their ground”… and only the survivor’s story would be told.
Plus, it makes things easier for professional assassins – if they’re white. All you have to do is shoot the intended victim, then claim they made you nervous.
3The only “good” thing I can see here is surely those of us in the majority will be motivated to seriously protest and put lots of pressure on legislatures to get real. And maybe vote them out of office.
4Surely it will. Won’t it? Please?!!
The fact that this wacko engaged in “inappropriate” behavior for the express purpose of scaring children demonstrates that he should not be legally allowed to own guns.
5The lawmakers in Georgia who passed this reprehensible piece of crap will have the deaths and injuries of innocents hanging over their heads.
Get out of Georgia!
Waiting for the NRA response – – let’s arm the umpires.
6Can various venues opt out of the “guns everywhere” idiocy? If not, I foresee an unfortunate mix of beer, baseball, and guns when the Atlanta Braves play at home. Although I’m sure the fans are all models of decorum, so what could possibly go wrong?
7This guy is a Ralphie.
Remember that movie “A Christmas Story”, which depicts a boy named Ralphie and his quest for a Red Ryder BB gun? He pictured all bad guys as wearing masks and black and white vertical stripes. This guy is like that. He thinks he can tell a bad guy just by looking at him.
Reasonable people can plainly see how wrong he is. It’s just a question of how many people have to be hurt before he realizes how wrong he is.
8sigh.
9I remember how wingnuts blamed all of the problems from the 60s on permissive society run by liberals. If it feels good,do it. What comes around goes around.
10Note to self: Add Georgia to list of states you refuse to visit.
11For a lot of gun owners, it’s not about freedom. It’s about intimidation.
One of the parents said “I don’t think the parents would have been nervous had he just had the gun in his holster and was just watching the game.” We need to stop talking about gun rights, and more about gun intelligence. Or just intelligence in general.
What threat to liberty is a baseball game? Or were these parents part of the New World Order, or the Zionist Occupational Government, or whatever loony things the right believes.
12People say when you have “bottomed out”, you will start to turn things around.
Georgia…… has reached “bottom”.
13The timing is interesting. GA Gov Nathan Deal signed the “guns everywhere” bill on Friday. The next day this fool shows up at the little league game with his assault rifle.
He was sitting on ready for his chance to go out and scare some kids.
14Does the law allow anyone with a permit and gun into the GA legislative session? If not, why not?
15It’s a good thing they don’t have gangs in Atlanta. Allowing gang members to openly carry guns might not work out according to their plan.
16I don’t know about Braves fans but we learned our lesson about booze and armaments the one and only time we had the great convergence of 10 cent beer night with bat night with exuberant Rangers fans. Toss in a few hundred guns an YEEHAW!
17This crap about the right to own a gun and do whatever the hell you want with it is going to topple itself as more and more people start to assert their right NOT to own a gun and to NOT be the victim of any effect of a gun, bloodless or not. The moron in the parking lot was not practicing gun safety. What he was doing in law is called reckless endangerment. It can still get you arrested and jailed in a lot of places IF the cops and the courts have the guts to enforce it.
18I’m waiting for the first publicized trial where BOTH sides claim a stand your ground defense and where the facts of the case are ambiguous.
19Mel, good point! Nooooo! No guns allowed in the GA state office buildings–nor in county courthouses.
Not even a pointy nail-file is allowed. The Gov and Legislature intend to keep themselves safe.
And re the Braves, the people who run the stadium don’t allow firearms. Recently the citizens of Cobb County were suckered into paying for a new stadium outside the perimeter where there is no public transportation. It isn’t built yet, but I suppose the rules will be the same. And the new stadium will probably be even safer because so few people will be able to get there.
20A kid’s ball game, eh? If he got hit in the head by a line drive, would he claim he was attacked & shoot someone?
Good Grief. Will someone please find a cure for The Stupid?
21Time to change the title to, “How you know you are shopping in _____” (Fill in the blank)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVtRwKsoI_M
22Inappropriate? And if he shoots someone?
23Here’s a common sense gun control idea that would make us a little safer and would not infringe on anybody’s rights. When somebody is inappropriately exhibiting a weapon like this guy, take him in for a psych exam. If he flunks, take away his guns.
24Henry, there you go applying logic to the problem. Logic is in short supply in Georgia. So is money, unfortunately, and hauling every nut with a gun in for a psych exam could get expensive fast under the “guns just about everywhere” rule.
25Henry, you zeroed in on the gun nuts biggest fear. Somewhere in their conscience or sub-conscience they know they’re idiots and would not be able to pass the most casual of scrutinies pre ownership: and post ownership, well you said it all.
No one has ever been out to take away their guns. It’s like the wing nuts are filling their own self-fulfilling prophecy. If they were responsible, as in not giving Juanita Jean a full day of work following the stupid things they do daily, we could care less about how far they shove their guns down their pants to give themselves a substitute for their short comings.
As it is a crime to flash their little teeniest, it should also be a crime to flash their surrogate ‘manhood.’
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