“Cancellation of Atlanta Festival Sparks New Fight Over Guns”

[Walt]

Criminals do not observe the law so banning in a open area is pointless. The problem is not laws but rather those determined to break the law. And Atlanta proper is chock full of them. It is hip hop central after all.

It is a not an open area, tickets are required.

[LurchAddams]

“Tens of thousands of Music Midtown festivalgoers are no longer going to descend on Atlanta’s massive Piedmont Park next month”

“In fact, some people are convinced Atlanta will lose more music festivals and performances on public land as organizers and artists learn that state law makes it nearly impossible for them to stop people from carrying guns among the alcohol-fueled crowds.”

“Nation planned to host the festival at Piedmont Park — public land — where the festival had been held each year since 2011. And it almost certainly fell into the leasing category that would make a ban on guns illegal.”

“In terms of Music Midtown, it’s virtually a no-brainer that they can’t ban guns there,” said John Monroe, an attorney who represented a gun rights group in the case before the state Supreme Court.”

“Cancelling the event over the gun law would make sense from Live Nation's perspective, said Timothy Lytton, a law professor at Georgia State University.”

“A mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas in 2017 that claimed more than 50 lives cost MGM Resorts International — the owner of the concert venue — and its insurers $800 million in legal claims. With no restriction on guns, Live Nation was looking at potentially “astronomical” liability exposure at Music Midtown”

https://www.usnews.com/news/business...ight-over-guns

Alcohol, drugs, guns, in a crowd, in a Southern State, in today’s climate, what could go wrong. But, but, but my “freedom,” looks like the “freedom” lovers in Georgia will have to do without festivals, concerts, and more for awhile

Funny how the GOP in congress and the NRA are all about, "you should be able to carry anywhere". Guess where you're NOT allowed to carry. Congress and any NRA convention. Makes sense, no?

No.

[LurchAddams]

move it out to Marietta. too close to midtown is a problem, ask Buckhead.

Not the issue, dum dum. It's the guns, Cleetus. Grab a clue.

[LurchAddams]

Believe Uvalde proved security isn’t the remedy, nineteen trained heavily armed just outside the door while kids were getting massacred

Excellent point. I'm going to be visiting Uvalde this month, actually. Might stay there, I'm not sure.

[LurchAddams]

lib'rul stupidity is why we can't have nice things......

You mean like showing our nuclear secrets to country club guests? Yah.. that's not the li'bruls fuck nut. That's YOU!

[LurchAddams]

Because they will come to one small house with one occupant with 30 heavily armed stormtroopers who hate honest and responsible gun owners. Just wait until they try to raid the farmhouses and rural folks...

oh geez. make it stop.

[LurchAddams]

Insurance companies are not going to allow it with everyone able to bring guns, and Georgia will not allow guns to be banned. They have to move it out of Georgia.

Many business leaders are still shocked that there are states where private property means nothing, and people are allowed to bring guns into a business whatever the owners want. When they realize this, they start reconsidering putting businesses in red states.

Hear, hear.

[LurchAddams]

There were close to two dozen armed officers present when the Uvalde shooter entered the school. That number expanded to nearly 400 armed officers.

I will say that it was federal law enforcement (mostly Border Patrol), the officers with the least authority to act, that were the ones that acted. What did make federal law enforcement different? Professionalism? Leadership?

Abbot went into hiding when he heard there was a mass shooting, and was impossible to provide authority.

Cowardice and apathy towards poor Latinos on full display - I know I lot of asshole gun nuts are going to attack me now and say, "some of the cops were Latino". Well, the cops considered themselves the "right kind of Latino". The kids and their parents were the "wrong" kind: Poor, some of them undocumented, not politically connected. There is a difference.

[LurchAddams]

Criminals do not observe the law so banning in a open area is pointless. The problem is not laws but rather those determined to break the law. And Atlanta proper is chock full of them. It is hip hop central after all.

The problem is the guns.

[Matt Dillon]

did nothing of the sort. Uvalde school had ONE resource officer. that's shitty security. Now, if you need/want to classify 19 heavily armed law enforcement too afraid to go in, what makes you think that the FBI/DHS/ATF are going to be any different? THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amen to that.

[TOP]

Guns weren't banned at the Ohio State Fair this year...No problems...Better crowd in fact....the complainers stayed home...

[martin]

The Right's backwards 20/20 vision.

Gun rights unlimited - yes

Reproductive rights - no

It's costing them and will cost them more.

[PostmodernProphet]

You mean like showing our nuclear secrets to country club guests? Yah.. that's not the li'bruls fuck nut. That's YOU!

except, cancelling a festival was real.......

[PostmodernProphet]

The problem is the guns.

maybe the guns should go and leave the thugs behind.......then they could prove you wrong.....

[LurchAddams]

except, cancelling a festival was real.......

Yep, as real as twump's guilt for stealing and probably selling our national secrets. Stay tuned, Sonny - like Kimberly Gillfoil screeched - "the best is yet to come"