{"id":44480,"date":"2017-03-29T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44480"},"modified":"2020-07-31T09:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:29:35","slug":"oh-georgia-984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44480","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Georgia #984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-44481 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vt_memorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vt_memorial.jpg 510w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/vt_memorial-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gov.georgia.gov\/press-releases\/2016-05-03\/deal-issues-2016-veto-statements\">A year ago<\/a>, Georgia governor Nathan Deal vetoed a measure that would allow licensed gun owners carry concealed weapons on college campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Well, apparently Nathan Deal was either on vacation this week, or was too busy counting money from all movie studios and\/or European car makers shoveling money into his coffers, because for whatever reason, the bill came back for 2017, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.wabe.org\/post\/georgia-senate-approves-campus-carry-bill\">somehow, it passed<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Licensed gun owners will now be allowed to carry concealed firearms on Georgia college campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Don\u2019t worry, they won\u2019t be allowed on housing or athletic facilities.\u00a0 But who\u2019s going to notice if they make it onto them?\u00a0 After all, they\u2019ll be concealed, so who\u2019s going to notice when some unhinged college kid brings firearms onto campus, legal or otherwise?\u00a0 Nothing bad can happen at all.\u00a0 Nope, nothing at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I love the logic that gun owners will be able to stop a future Cho Seung-Hui if they have firearms.\u00a0 Surely, none of them would be capable of <em>being<\/em> the next Cho Seung-Hui, because concealed firearms are <em>solely<\/em> for protection, right??\u00a0 No possible ways that they\u2019ll be instruments of intimidation, illegal activity or end games to grudges gone way too overboard?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">As I used as an example this time last year when I wrote about how stupid of an idea it is to allow guns on Georgia campuses, I can already see it when Georgia plays Georgia Tech, and the fans take the sports rivalry too seriously, and regardless of which campus they\u2019re on, a tailgate confrontation goes a little too far, one guy whips out his piece, then the other guy whips out their Glock, and then five other bystanders whip out their guns, shots are fired, prompting people who hear it to all pull out their firearms, and the next thing you know, it\u2019s a Mexican standoff, but only <a href=\"https:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/TXYEw.jpg\">like the one<\/a> from <em>Inglourious Basterds<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The only bright side to this, and it\u2019s solely ironic, is that with such a pointless bill passed, I guess it\u2019s only a matter of time when the next college massacre happens, and Virginia Tech won\u2019t be the only name associated with tragic gun violence.\u00a0 After all, misery loves company.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, Georgia governor Nathan Deal vetoed a measure that would allow licensed gun owners carry concealed weapons on college campuses. Well, apparently Nathan Deal was either on vacation this week, or was too busy counting money from all movie studios and\/or European car makers shoveling money into his coffers, because for whatever reason, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44480\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, Georgia #984<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,8,165,68,49],"class_list":["post-44480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-politics","tag-tragedy","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44482,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44480\/revisions\/44482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}