The people who go through the licensing process to be able to carry are not the people you need to be worried about. All the Georgia law does is expand the number if places you can carry IF you are a holder of a Georgia Firearms License. You must go through a thorough background search to get such a license. I know this because I live in Georgia and have carried for 20 years.
People who carry are going to carry. However, you need to be aware if where you cannot legally carry and be prepared to leave your gun in the car, at the office, or at home if you know you will at some point have to go to such a place. The expanded law simply means that the people who are already carrying will not have to think through their daily schedule to know where they will be at a certain time so that they can stash their piece somewhere legally before entering a place off limits. For example, if I happen to go to lunch somewhere that serves alcohol, then I have to leave my piece at the office or in my car. The result is that I was constantly having to unholster my weapon, stash it, then reholster it. I was leaving it at my office, a friend's office, or unattended in my car all the time. That being said, it seems to me that it is a much more rational and safe practice to keep my piece with me and under my control at all times rather than having to unholster it and leave it unattended several times each week.
The new law will not cause more people to carry. Further, there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that a licensed individual is going to shoot up a place because now it is legal to carry in an establishment that serves alcohol. That point of view is not logical.
It is amazing how many people who are ignorant on this subject have adopted such irrational positions. By the same logic you could conclude that handing out condoms is going to cause more sex and more sexual assaults.
A word of advice to the leftists: you are not doing your children any favors by being a knee-jerk, ignorant reactionary. Further, you are not doing your children any favor by making the topic of firearms taboo. Finally, you are not doing your children any favors by walking around completely unable to protect them or yourselves. A responsible adult will learn to protect him or her self so as not to cause their kids to become orphans should the unfortunate circumstances arise.
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