State Senator and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Michael Williams announced Tuesday the Michael Williams Deportation Bus Tour one week before the Peach State’s primary “to shine a light on the dangers of sanctuary cities and the overwhelming problem of illegal immigration.”
Late Thursday, Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed campus carry into law, making campus carry the law of the land in one-fifth of the states.
The Poetry Action Network is mobilizing against campus carry in Georgia, asking others to join its efforts to dissuade Gov. Nathan Deal (R) from signing the legislation into law.
Georgia lawmakers passed campus carry legislation early Friday morning, which now heads to Gov. Nathan Deal’s (R) desk for a signature.
Campus Carry passed the Georgia House on Friday and is now headed to the Senate. The bill–HB 280–would allow students with concealed carry licenses to carry guns on campus for self-defense.
Georgia state Representative Mandi Ballinger (R-Canton) reintroduced campus carry Tuesday despite the fact that Governor Nathan Deal (R) sided with Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Guns Safety and vetoed similar legislation last year.
Georgia Tech police are reporting an alleged armed robbery occurred on the school’s campus at 9:20 pm Wednesday night.
A law-abiding Fort Valley State University (FVSU) student was stabbed to death on campus Tuesday, the same day that Governor Nathan Deal (R) vetoed a bill allowing law-abiding students to carry guns on campus for self-defense.
On May 3 Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R) took the action Everytown for Gun Safety had urged by vetoing campus carry legislation that had been on his desk for over a month.
On Monday, REM frontman and Bernie Sanders backer Michael Stipe penned a op-ed pleading for Georgia Republican Gov. Nathan Deal to veto a bill that will allow concealed carry permit holders to carry guns on campus for self-defense.
State legislators from across America are fighting back against the LGBT agenda and their activist’s retaliation against states over religious liberty legislation. Forty Texas state legislators joined with over one-hundred legislators nationally in writing to business leaders who are threatening action against states who have passed such bills.
The March 21 shooting on the Georgia State University (GSU) campus in which two were wounded is a stark reminder that “gun-free zones” are not gun free.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R) wants lawmakers to water down the campus carry legislation they sent to his desk, but House Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) says that is not going to happen.
Although campus carry passed the Georgia House and Senate amid much pro-gun fanfare–including fanfare from Governor Nathan Deal (R)–the bill may be in jeopardy as Deal outlines substantive changes he wants made before signing the measure.
On March 11 the Georgia Senate concurred with House and passed legislation to allow concealed carry permit holders to carry their guns on Georgia college and university campuses for self-defense.
Georgia Lt. Governor Casey Cagle (R) said he looks forward to attending the spring signing ceremony for campus carry legislation currently making its way through the state legislature.
A group of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America members gathered on Monday in opposition to campus carry in Georgia, arguing that allowing guns on campus for self-defense is not “justice.”
The Obama Department of Agriculture sent a letter to Georgia’s social services agency Wednesday, warning that if the state refuses to grant food stamp benefits to Syrian refugees, it would be doing so in direct violation of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
As part of CBS 46’s ongoing coverage of gun policies and issues in the Atlanta area they recently reported that Mayor Kasim Reed (D) and Police Chief George Turner are sitting on more than “10,000” confiscated guns in defiance of a Georgia law which requires them to return the guns to their owners or sell them to the public in an auction.
The push to put more good guys with guns in schools to dissuade and counter bad guys with guns has re-emerged and is expanding at the state level around the country.
