That is how the gun bigots see Heller.
And Hot-Lanta is going to have free citizens, come Heller or high water.
The nation’s busiest airport dueled with gun rights advocates Tuesday over whether a new Georgia state law allows visitors to carry firearms at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
City officials in charge of the airport declared it a “gun-free zone” when a law allowing people to carry guns on public transit and other places took effect Tuesday. Gun rights supporters, including a state legislator who helped pass the law, quickly filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the designation.
It is good to see a legislator doing more than flapping his lips in the state house or resting on his laurels in his taxpayer provided office.
The gun group argues that weapons should be allowed in the terminal up to the point where passengers pass through security to board their flights. The parking lot is off limits under the state law, but it allows travelers to carry a gun on MARTA trains and buses, which run directly to the airport.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said citizens can’t bring guns into the terminal and argued that airports remain attractive targets for terrorism.
And exactly which law abiding citizen has committed a terrorist act at an airport with their legally owned firearm? I’m sorry Ms. Franklin, but the history of these types of attacks is escaping me.
In fact, it is the non-law abiding citizen who wanders on into to hold his own personal shooting spree that keeps me wanting to legally carry my firearm in public places.
Allowing citizens to carry firearms “would create an environment that would endanger millions of people,” she said.
Ahh, the “Personal Sidearm as a Weapon of Mass Destruction” ploy. Been there, heard that, considered it complete hyperbole.
Franklin said she will lobby Congress to withhold federal funds from facilities that allow firearms on their premises.
You mean, like the City Hall of Atlanta? I’m absolutely sure that her personal security contingent carries firearms. And they do have to be on the premises to fulfill their duties.
Oh, she is only talking about letting Regular People carry firearms. Those people aren’t important enough to need any protection.
If she does get up the gumption to fight this, I believe her next election run will be rather interesting.
This is part of “Heller pushed, they’ll push back”, which I predicted several weeks ago.
Make the point for Western Rifle Shooter’s new novella, which he offers us a tease at over at his blog.