Readers keep firing away about the proposed legislation to expand gun-carrying rights in Georgia.

Hey Mr. McKee:

From your article you seem to think that everybody will be armed in the new locations you all mentioned. I believe the new law only applies to concealed gun owners who have checked out by the state of Georgia. The thugs know that the places covered in the proposed law are easy pickings as guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens shouldn't be there.

The Founding Fathers stated that unless the country is coming from a shared moral background it will sink into anarchy. Thanks to the "brilliant" leadership of our Supreme Court since WW2, we are getting deeper into that sinkhole! Thus a lot more crime. I was born in 1934 and the crime rate was way lower (even in the Depression years) as we still had the vast majority of our people from the same moral background.

You may recall that shooting at a high school in Alabama approximately three years ago that was ended by the principal running to his car to retrieve a weapon (horrors - under the law in Georgia that is illegal (don't know about Alabama) and that stopped more shooting. The fact about the principal using a gun to stop the shooting was never reported in the Atlanta news media - not P.C. in today's climate. One final thought: To my knowledge in all the communities in the USA that have adopted concealed gun laws the violent crime rates have fallen as the thugs don't know who isn't armed.

Robert A. Scrugham

Dear Mr. McKee:

Thank you for publishing the letters regarding the gun-toting legislation. I totally agree with your sentiments on this important issue and hope good judgment will prevail in all this. Having everyone on college campuses walking around armed with guns would be a total disaster!

Karon E. Park

Dear Mr. McKee:

My son and I would be dead now if I did not carry a gun. We were riding trail bikes in Morgan County when we were attacked by three wild dogs. They circled us and worked as a team trying to bring us down. I kept them away by shooting into the ground until I ran low on ammunition, then shot and killed two of them. The third one ran away. My son is grown now and has two kids of his own. I still carry a pistol most places I go. Without it we would have been dog food.

Marion Blackwell, Jr.

Mr. McKee:

I have a hard time understanding some people. If people would try to understand what they read and think they would find that the current gun law has flaws. The new proposal will give schools, churches, restaurants, and other establishments their own right to determine if they want people to carry firearms in their locations and not the government. The current law limits this right and is vague about it.

Larry Bost

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