In April, a Cumming resident was arrested after carrying a gun in a Sugar Hill city park. A security guard is reported to have accused him of illegally carrying a gun. He was subsequently arrested. However, he had a permit for the gun and, under Georgia law, was legally allowed to carry it. The man, Christopher Proescher, has now filed a lawsuit against the Sugar Hill security guard and the Gwinnett County police.
The case, however, prompted As reported in Snellville Patch, she expressed concern about people carrying guns in Snellville city parks and wanted to see if anything could be done about it. The subject has drawn some heated discussion among residents. While some share the Snellville mayor’s concerns, it has been pointed out Georgia’s law allows for gun owners who are correctly permitted to carry guns, even in public parks.
One of the men allegedly pulled a gun on a visitor to the park and robbed him of a pack of cigarettes, a pocket knife and his hat.
Our question here is, if municipalities were able to place restrictions on law abiding citizens carrying guns in city or county parks, would that not leave the field open for those who carry guns for criminal purposes?
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/intruder-shot-in-the-1464583.html
The Marines taught me the three tap method...two to the chest, one to the head. Might have been worse for the druggie if it was my house he broke into.
Every criminal is someone's child. It's a terrible thing to have to tell the family and loved ones of a person that their child has passed, no matter what the circumstances. I know, because I've been that person many times, and whether it's a baby or a 24-year-old drug dealer, it's still awful. But that doesn't free someone from responsibility for their actions.
"There was some video footage and it just appears like he was just confused which was his house," Roberson said. "Unfortunately, the people inside didn't know what he was doing. And he was, according to everyone that we've interviewed, came across as high on something other than alcohol."
And we didn't create this culture, it was created by the founding fathers when they guaranteed the right to bear arms, as has already been discussed in this thread.
And , for the record I'm with David. Some drugged out idiot comes charging through my door in the middle of the night I'm not gonna spend time chatting him up either
It doesn't matter, however. Of course, people behave like human beings, which means they sometimes act unlawfully and do unreasonable (and dangerous) things. They don't need guns to do this -- they can do it perfectly well with cars, and boats, and swimming pools, or with drugs and alcohol. I'll take the occasional random chance that my house gets hit by a bullet (and our roof did take a peppering from a shotgun once) in exchange for the ability to defend myself and my family, and for others to do the same.
A) Brian was sitting on "the rest of the story" B) There was a woman to blame (kidding!)
In no way does that erase the rights that people have to bear arms and defend themselves, their homes and their families.
Seems this guy left the force in 1986 and is NOT licensed to carry here in Georgia . Of course , as I suggested, he was performing a criminal act . If you can make all the criminals go away we wont need our guns
That's the same thing lots of fifty six year old crime victims said just one year earlier!
Hmmmm . . .really gonna go with that Brian? Really? Maybe you would get lucky, and the armed good sumaritan would mind his own business and let you merely deal with that one bullet in the pointing the gun at you. On the plus side, at that range your fear for innocent bystanders lives is probably minimised.
You have to "have sense" to recognize that I guess.
Yes Brian, seriously. Tell ya what, why don't you point out what you perseive as the problem with that comparison . . . .and I'll pretty much school you on the realities . . .in a way you will find most embarrassing. You kinda suck at supporting your position.