If it looks like a peach, taste like
a peach and smells like a peach it must be a peach right? Welcome to the great
state of Georgia where not everything is as it might first seem. Georgia, a
down home kind of place where God and guns are as American as peach cobbler,
peanut farmers, Delta Airlines and the Atlanta Braves major league baseball
team. What exactly do these thing have in common? Probably not a whole lot
other than the notion they all likely feel a keen responsibility to look out
for their own communities. No matter whose life it might cost. What are we if
not a community? God bless ‘Merica. An eye for an eye. We are who we associate
with are we not? There’s plenty of saying the good ole boys are quite fond of spouting
off in their haste to remind us all they won’t lay down their so called 2nd
Amendment rights so quickly. In fact, they dead set on making certain
Democrats, filthy liberal animals and the black guy in their White House get a
big fat F- you too.
Yet Georgia, the bedrock of the south
is also a place where great statesmen and former presidents like James Earl
Carter Jr. come from seems to have gone ‘plum crazy’. When was the last time a
president actually fed poor children or helped the less fortunate build a home
through Habitat for Humanity? A great man who unlike the majority of his
predecessors and successors alike puts his money where his mouth is, dedicating
his life to the service of others. A man who is deeply committed to social
justice and basic human rights. Yet the Grand Ole Party speaks of this great man
like an ignorant country bumpkin. There used to be so many great things to say
about Georgia.
Yes sir the Great state of Georgia
has spoken! They have seen the light! They will lead the way for ‘Merica. Yet
eventually reality sets in and you realize a once great state seems to have
lost its cotton pickin’ mind. Even their state motto “Wisdom, Justice,
Moderation” says everything about how far off the path of sanity they have
strayed. Their illustrious politician’s spew their pro-American “Johnny git
jer” gun rights crap while thumping the Lord’s Bible and spitting out verse and
scripture instructing others how to live. They’re also fond of telling us who
and who will not get through the Gates of Heaven.
There was a time in America when laws
were created to enhance the quality of life and correct inequalities and deficiencies
in our society. A time now long gone. Laws these days are fabricated purely to
inflate dicks and egos. Those responsible for crafting and creating legislation
today are devoid of any desire to effect positive social advancement much less
protect the rights of the average American for whom they were elected to work.
Any benefit to society is purely accidental, any positive result without merit.
One’s manhood used to be measured by hard work, doing right by loved ones,
pushing on in the face of adversity and making a positive contribution to
society. For the less civic minded individual the measuring stick might rest
between one’s legs. Sadly, even the latter trumps today’s interpretation of masculinity
which is solely measured by the size of the gun strapped to one’s hip.
The state of Georgia’s recently
passed House Bill 60, the Safe Carry Protection Act of 2014 has made it official,
and America has finally lost its goddamn mind. In a world which is, out of
necessity to survive, becoming increasingly socially conscious we as a society
have allowed America to be reduced to quite possibly the most socially regressing
first world nation on the planet. I mean let’s be honest, with politicians the
likes of Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal at the helm what else helm what else can
we expect? America at a crossroads and make no mistake it’s Governor Deal who wants
to put us all in the cross hairs. Georgia’s Safe Carry Protection Act
effectively allows everybody and his brother to pack a gun not only in the
street but in bars and restaurants serving alcohol, in the Church pews, school
zones and buildings with kids present, government buildings and even airports.
You read right, airports! Just imagine, the next time a TSA agent pisses you
off you can just shoot him. A gun owner with a license requiring no more
background check than a fishing license is now allowed to conceal carry by law
right up to the gates of airport security. Even better, the annoying drunk
seated next to you at the bar has one too many and decides well, he wants to
shoot you, so you decide in self-defense to shoot him back, then his buddy
decides to get in on the action just like back in the good ole days of OK
Corral. Sound extreme? Think again.
Remember when schools were a place to
feel safe? Yep, a kid might not be allowed to wear a gay rights t-shirt, profess
a religious belief or expect a decent lunch, but be sure adults can strap a gun
to their hip and during school hours! After all, what’s more important here,
education or raising a generation of gun toting kids? Where went the good ole days
when everyone in town turned out at church because it was the House of God, a
place to feel safe and protected from the evils of men? Not anymore folks those
days are long gone too. Thanks to Governor Deal and the Georgia State
Legislature the church is no longer designated a feel good, safe zone. Not even
the preacher can protect his flock as it will now infringe on your rights to
carry a gun wherever you damn well please. How long do you think it will be
before some pissed off citizen strolls into a courthouse or government building
to contest a traffic ticket, pay a fine or address some manner of official
business and some lowly civil servant gets blasted?
I have to wonder how all those
Georgia law enforcement officers feel now knowing every character they pull
over from the drunken fool who just got behind the wheel of their car to the
pissed off citizen involved in a domestic dispute is now packing a piece. No
doubt folks America as you knew it no longer exists. The move by Georgia and
Governor Deal is nothing more than extremism in action. Their idea is not to
protect the rights of Americans at all, it is no more than extremist leaders
attempting to flex their muscles and send a big fat F**K YOU to the moderate,
liberal and socially conscious Americans their paranoia tells them want to take
‘their ‘Merica’ away. Governor Deal and his posse effectively said ‘we will do
what we want and we don’t care what America thinks’.
America is in a seriously bad place
when we’ve afforded our elected officials the power to allow guns in schools,
churches and airports. The great state of Georgia sacrificed the safety of our
children, ignored the true word of God and endangered public safety all for a
few votes from 2nd amendment crackpots and NRA extremists. The irony
is not lost on a passage of a bogus bill pandered to a desperate public as
means for citizens to protect themselves will result in no one being safe
anymore. In addition to serious the potentially deadly consequences and serious
social ramifications which will sooner than later effect the good citizens of
Georgia are huge legal and financial liabilities. Liabilities Governor Deals
and his gun rights posse has now laid squarely on the taxpayer doorstep through
his blood legislation. At a news conference he was so busy patting himself on
the back while chewing his cud, pumping his fist in the air and inciting the
gun toting Christian masses, “we won so screw you liberals”, his ignorance and
their own was lost on the state of Georgia itself.
Governor Deal’s gloating and
self-adulation in his intentional protection of extremist gun rights activists
has put every citizen at risk. Why merely stop at allowing everyone to strap on
a holster? Georgia hasn’t gone far enough, let’s go a step further and bring
back the age old sport of dueling to the death. Let the good citizens settle
squabbles over good old fashioned state sanctioned shootout. Everybody from the
gun and ammo manufacturer to local undertakers can now turn a profit, we can
even have a picnic in the ole town square. This, is essentially what we have
come to, turning a profit for gun rights.
One wonders how the State of Georgia
would react if we as responsible citizens were to how to address the issue in
extremist ways of our own? What if we were to turn the tables on Governor Deal
and his posse through a series of economic sanctions on the state of Georgia
not unlike we’ve done to Russia and other countries when we want something? Hit
them right where it matters most to these people, in the pocketbook. Maybe we
can begin by a boycott of Georgia peaches? Hell, why stop there let’s boycott
peanuts while we’re at it! Surely the good citizens of Georgia will sit up and
take note of sane Americans great displeasure especially in light of economic
sanctions. While we’re at it let’s go even further and refuse to fly Delta
Airlines head quartered in Atlanta Georgia or skip the Atlanta Braves games
whenever they come to a city near you. Money it seems is the only motivator in
America today, not social consciousness, or moral responsibility, so it’s about
time we bring it to them where it hurts the most. It’s about time we get
serious and get serious quick to stop Governor Deal and his Georgia pro-gun
rights posse and the countless of other extremists in America or we’re in for
big trouble. Trouble we may not be able to so easily turn back.
The truth is, if we don’t do
something to stop the madness that is called gun rights soon we as a nation
soon we are surely destined for a great deal more pain and division than we
already know. If we allow it to happen, America as we know it will quickly slip
out of our hands and into the control of a much uglier, extremist element. Will
we as socially responsible Americans stand and take a stand against the madness
of Governor Nathan Deal and others like him? Will we take a stand against the
insanity of the NRA and those who call themselves Americans? Or will we allow
ourselves to as a nation to regress and watch America to slip into the social
abyss in which we are headed? An eye for an eye right? Isn’t that what they say
down home in Georgia?
