Sonny Perdue takes Georgia to the Old West with gun law
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Gov. Sonny Perdue signed legislation yesterday that takes Georgia back to the days of the wild, wild west. Registered gun owners here can now take their weapons into public places, such as restaurants and MARTA and parks.
Perdue’s spin is that the issue is headed to the courts regardless, and that it’s better to get it over with than to do a veto and have the General Assembly waste time next year squabbling over the issue all over again.
But that doesn’t satisfy critics, which include the parents of Professor Jamie Bishop, one of the 32 victims of the Virginia Tech massacre of April 16, 2007. It was the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
Michael and Jeri Bishop released a letter to Perdue this morning that takes the governor to task for signing the bill into law.
“How … could you possibly allow this bill — this unholy tangle of venomous snakes — to wriggle its way into law?” write Michael and Jeri Bishop.
Read their full statement after the jump.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
