MASS SHOOTINGS
Gun Control, Georgia Style
How America might stumble into gun control
Georgia, of all places, may have just unlocked the secret to gun control.
The school year wasn’t two weeks into its fall session in America when the bullets started flying in a Georgia school. Once again, dead children and teachers, thoughts and prayers.
As the usual fusillade of frustration roared from those of us tired of lax gun control laws, an interesting thing happened in a state where kids can legally possess weapons of mass destruction: The father of one of those kids was charged with two counts of second-degree murder in this, the latest killing spree, this time at the trigger-happy hands of a 14-year-old child.
The shooter’s father, 54-year-old Colin Gray, was also charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to children. He faces up to 180 years in prison.
In Georgia, where the mass murder took place, the only restriction on minors possessing weapons is on handguns. You must be 18 years old to possess a handgun. Other than that, any other weapons, including weapons of war like AR-15s (used in this latest shooting), are available to any minor who isn’t a felon.
