On June 1st, 2022, I emailed my "pro-Second Amendment" Georgia lawmakers a petition to decriminalize carry of firearms in K-12 schools for self-defense purposes by those who possess a license to carry. You can view the text of the email here.
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In spite of current law allowing school boards to arm teachers and staff, they would rather your children's caretakers at school to remain helpless to save them from murderous attackers. Therefore, the General Assembly should fix this by decriminalizing the carry of firearms by licensed citizens.
State Representative Thomas Benton of the 31st District replied to my email referred to above:
"Mr. Evans,
In 2014 the General Assembly passed legislation allowing local school boards to permit carry by teachers."
I replied back to him:
"I am aware of that, just as you are aware almost no school district would ever do that.
So far, only Laurens and Fannin Counties have taken advantage of that, leaving the other districts virtually helpless. Two tiny rural counties. Really?
Passing the buck like that is not leadership. (emphasis added for this article)
The state needs to remove the axe over my head as a licensed carrier, so that I can legally carry where criminals will carry anyway.
Licensed carriers legally carry at crowded park festivals full of children, but we can't be trusted to carry in K-12 schools?
Is there no one in the Capitol with the skill to articulate furthering liberty, so that schools can get on the spot protection when evil strikes?
Don't YOU want to be able to legally carry in schools? I trust you to do so, why don't you trust me?"
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Georgia's School District elites have practically guaranteed that teachers will not be permitted to shoot back at a murdering, evil lunatic attacking them and the children under their presumed protection and care.
To use the word "immoral" for this, is to be a champion at understatement.
The Solution?
Real state leadership that DECRIMINILIZES the carry of firearms at K-12 schools by those who took the time and paid money to be background checked by the state AND the Federal Government, and obtained a Georgia Weapons Carry License.
So let's understand current Georgia Law:
If I go to my son's school to have lunch with him and am wearing a concealed pistol, I'm at risk of being kidnapped by armed government enforcers, placed behind bars and separated from my family, just for desiring to not be defenseless, the same boat our teachers are in.
Even though:
1. I've been vetted by background checks (you know, the special magic)
2. I've obtained my license to carry
3. It is a Second Amendment Right
4. I follow the law and am willing to defend others when possible
What Can You Do?
Write, email, call, meet with your state lawmakers and bring up these points. Demand a pathway for ANY licensed carrier to be able to carry in K-12 schools, whether it's an extra special background check or reasonable shooting test, something to give those with weak knees under the Gold Dome some political cover.
But frankly, they should just let freedom ring and add licensed carriers to the OCGA 16-11-130 exemption list.
By the way, Superior Court clerks are on this list and can legally carry in K-12 schools with NO license at all! We little people with a license can just eat cake!
Is it fair for those in government favored professions (and there's a lot of them on that exception list) to get the okay to carry a gun for self-defense, but not you and I?
Heaven forbid a mass shooting happens in a K-12 school in Georgia. We have no further to look than politicians who apparently trust school board disarmament decisions to keep our children safe.
Do you want to see greater self-defense liberty in Georgia? Join GA2A (formerly Georgia Carry). I've been a member since 2010. This article was not written on behalf of GA2A, but is my own personal work.
I agree with you totally we should be allowed to go in the schools and carry at games etc with a permit.
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