In the waning hours of the legislative session, the GA legislators passed a low allowing the carriers of concealed weapons to bring them into restaurants and on public transportation, but, due to opposition from the Chamber of Commerce, not to one's place of employment, not even to the parking lot outside the job in one's car.
At the same time, police are reportedly going door to door in selected neighborhoods of Washington DC canvassing apartments and asking to search them for guns and drugs, promising amnesty for anything they find. Whether they are taking special note of those who refuse a search nobody can say.
Why does the US Constitution guarantee citizens "the right to bear arms," but not the right to an education or health care or a clean environment, as do the more modern Constitutions of other nations? Why is there no right to a guaranteed income or a job, or housing? What was so important in early America, about the right of citizens to have guns? And like much else in US history, is it even possible to have an honest discussion about the Second Amendment without acknowledging its racist origin?
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