http://www.georgiacarry.org/cms Fighting for firearms rights in Georgia. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:19:53 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.georgiacarry.org/cms/about/prohibited-places/#comment-7431 Banning Guns in Church Does Not Stop Crime Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:26:12 +0000 http://gc.localhost.com/cms/?page_id=3#comment-7431 [...] Leaving church attendees utterly defenseless has never stopped a violent crime in the state of Georgia.  Very few states criminalize the carry of firearms in church.  Georgia does, but a law banning guns affects only the law abiding.  As the Savannah Morning News reports, two armed robbers burst into a church with shotguns on Sunday morning and ordered the people present to lay on the floor, collecting valuables.  Only fifteen people were present because the robbers were too stupid to know that this particular church worships on Saturdays, and nobody was injured.  One robber was caught “with a considerable amount of crack cocaine.”  Why should church-goers in Georgia be at the mercy of people like this?  It is time to repeal O.C.G.A. 16-11-127. Share this news with your fellow citizens: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

]]> http://www.georgiacarry.org/cms/about/prohibited-places/#comment-7427 Georgia Carry : An information clearinghouse for Georgia Firearms License issues and news » Blog Archive » Banning Guns in Church Does Not Stop Crime Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:07:03 +0000 http://gc.localhost.com/cms/?page_id=3#comment-7427 [...] Leaving church attendees utterly defenseless has never stopped a violent crime in the state of Georgia.  Very few states criminalize the carry of firearms in church.  Georgia does, but a law banning guns affects only the law abiding.  As the Savannah Morning News reports, two armed robbers burst into a church with shotguns on Sunday morning and ordered the people present to lay on the floor, collecting valuables.  Only fifteen people were present because the robbers were too stupid to know that this particular church worships on Saturdays, and nobody was injured.  One robber was caught “with a considerable amount of crack cocaine.”  Why should church-goers in Georgia be at the mercy of people like this?  It is time to repeal O.C.G.A. 16-11-127. [...]

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