{"id":46844,"date":"2020-03-03T22:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46844"},"modified":"2020-08-12T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T02:30:54","slug":"only-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46844","title":{"rendered":"Only in the south"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What could possibly go wrong<\/a> – Georgia senate panel approves legislation that would make it legal to \u201cpull or show\u201d your firearm during a dispute as long as you don\u2019t \u201caim it offensively\u201d at someone<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, Georgia is trying to make it completely legal to show that you have a gun in order to attempt to deescalate a conflict, but not necessarily point it at another human being.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, that\u2019s really going to go over real well; especially when jobber A flashes that they have a piece during a heated argument over the last $16 waffle maker at Walmart on Black Friday, and then jobber B responds by flashing their larger, more powerful piece.\u00a0 Surely, the hypothesis is that jobber A will immediately stand down and forfeit the waffle maker to jobber B and then everyone will resume what they\u2019re doing peacefully.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the reality is that the two of them will eventually reach this uncomfortable and tense stalemate before one of them inevitably breaks the law and flashes it at the other, causing mass hysteria around them, before the highly armed and concealed-carrying rest of Georgia all begin brandishing weapons all around and then Milledgeville ends up on the news for the first time since Ben Roethlistberger raped a chick way back when.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously, this is some only in the south kind of shit logic, and if there were ever any more proof that industries like firearms have their hands in the pockets of old white men in political power, dry rubbing their flaccid old dicks, it\u2019s stories like this, because in no scenario in the world involving people who are not law enforcement, does the introduction of firearms ever have a chance at hell at deescalating anything at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Digging deeper, I love how the impetus behind this ridiculous bill is that the previous punishment for brandishing a weapon is a 20-year felony, and a bunch of hicks decided that they shouldn\u2019t have to go to prison for two decades because they have a gun and want to show it off.\u00a0 So why not just change the fucking law?<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I look forward to the statistics that will never be published where gun violence actually goes down as a result of laws like this.\u00a0 Or the amendment where it will not-so subtly exclude black people from this law and in fact make it a 25-year felony for the colored folks for even saying the word \u201cgun\u201d around old white people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What could possibly go wrong – Georgia senate panel approves legislation that would make it legal to \u201cpull or show\u201d your firearm during a dispute as long as you don\u2019t \u201caim it offensively\u201d at someone In other words, Georgia is trying to make it completely legal to show that you have a gun in order … Continue reading Only in the south<\/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":[116,112,45,72,30,8,52,165],"class_list":["post-46844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-brack-friday","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-government","tag-justice","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-owned","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46844","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=46844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46846,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46844\/revisions\/46846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}