Georgia Lawmakers Call K-12 Defenseless Zones, "School Safety Zones" <----- This is an example of sad IRONY
My fear has unfortunately just been realized:
Over the last few years (since 2019) I have emailed Georgia lawmakers (mostly Republicans), and it is Republicans who correctly state that, "It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun", to express my concern over K-12 schools being sitting-duck zones.
Georgia's OCGA weapons code makes it an arrestable and jailable crime to conceal a firearm merely to keep yourself and others safe from armed criminals while on K-12 school property.
How does that make any sense? Since 2022 Georgia has allowed non-licensed adult citizens to carry a firearm or other legal weapon in public for self-defense if they have a clean non-violent criminal record, and that is a good thing.
But how about letting LICENSED carriers carry concealed while on K-12 property? Have licensed carriers been a problem in our state? Is it that we can't be trusted enough?
Do lawmakers really think waiting on 911 to send armed government agents is a great idea while a mass murderer is shooting at innocent children and adults? Set a stopwatch for one minute and imagine being at a school listening to bullets being fired as those 60 seconds tick by, while people are screaming in terror.
Would you want a gun in your hand to try and stop the murderer? Any sane moral person would. Are our Republican lawmakers sane and moral, or have they just been giving us lip service to the idea of armed self-defense?
If children are compelled to be in school, are they unworthy of an immediate armed response from willing adults that are charged with their care and protection?
Many Republicans under the Gold Dome will appeal to the fact that school boards can legally grant written permission to teachers, staff, and parental caretakers to be armed at school, but THEY KNOW this will NOT happen.
Passing the buck will NOT save lives! They can pass good laws, and it's their responsibility to do so!
This recent bloodshed is a tragic result, not just of a 14-year-old murder, but also of a statewide disarmament policy which prevents immediate and effective measures to fight back against a murderer as he is in the act. He should have been shot on the spot by a teacher, staff member, or parent to save lives.
Listen folks - chairs, erasers, books, and pencils will never be sufficient tools to defend children against a madman with a gun.
And one or two resource officers for an entire school is not sufficient protection, especially when there are times they may not even be present! The time it takes to run from one building to another will cost lives. Arming good citizens will give blanket protection to save more lives.
Take action and see if your Georgia lawmaker has any heart left in his or her chest to let liberty be the solution, and to stop disarming good people under the false pretense of "School Safety Zone".
Lives are at stake, let NO MORE BLOOD BE SHED!
I've emailed the text of this article to all of our state lawmakers. We will see if they will take any action to ensure that free citizens can be lawfully armed on school property.
ReplyDeleteI'm willing as a licensed carrier to provide proof of a firearms training course to get the option to carry legally on K-12 property.
It is not a crime for licensed carriers to be armed with a pistol in K-12 schools in Arizona, Utah, and Alabama. And unlicensed citizens can carry under state law in New Hampshire K-12 schools!
ReplyDeleteMississippi allows it with an "enhanced" license with a one-time training course. That sounds like a pretty good idea, as it's worked well in that state for the last twelve years.
Will Georgia still think that a head-in-sand approach is the best? Enough is enough!
Naturally our hearts and prayers go out to surviving victims and the families of all the wounded and killed. But our lawmakers should not be relying on prayer as a substitute for doing their job.
ReplyDeleteThey need to abolish the godless and wicked law which prevents good citizens from carrying a firearm to save lives while at K-12 schools.
Wait, what?! The school had resource officers there at the school, and it still took them minutes to get to the shooter? Waiting minutes for help to arrive costs lives. There were adults already near where the shooter was that could have saved lives had they been allowed to be armed:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/05/georgia-shooting-apalachee-high-school-winder-what-to-know/
"Within minutes of the first reports of an active shooter, school resource officers confronted the suspect, 'who gave up and got on the ground,' Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said."