Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 They say the path to hell was paved with good intentions. I wonder if this could be the case. It sounds perfectly sane and reasonable in many regards. I'd like to hear some of your thoughts on this bill. The link gives no hint to the details of the bill. Just a short article. http://www.ajc.com/n...xtype=ynews_rss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Sounds fine with me - shooting into the air in a populated area is dumb and reckless...IMHO. GG ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 GG., I agree. dumb and reckless. Wouldn't the following charges take care of these associated actions, rather than a new piece of legislation? They surely address the issue rather than an ever growing bureaucracy. disorderly conduct disturbing the peace reckless endangerment manslaughter I was curious of if any other states have similar laws and if any unintended consequences arose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marauder SASS #13056 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 But Dan, you just don't understand. Somebody has to DO something about this!!! I know, let's pass ANOTHER law against it!!! If that doesn't work, well pass two more.. Of course such behavior is stupid and already illegal but . . . With the level of intelligence, maybe folks cannot figure out what reckless endangerment etc mean. Plus it is already to fire a gun in any populated area in Georgia. Remember, Stupid is never illegal - otherwise we would have almost no one in congress.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Masked Man Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Stupid is also extremely popular. On a bad day, I would say stupid is the norm, and thinking things through or applying "intelligence" is the exception. The problem with laws against disturbing the peace, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct etc is they require a judgment call on the part of the LEO. The advantage to specific prohibitions like 'celebratory gunfire' is they do not require the officer to engage the brain - OR - open the officer up to second-guessing of his judgment call by a trial attorney or a jury of "our peers". Unfortunately we as a society have resigned ourselves to the reality that nowadays we have complete idiots in all kinds of jobs (most notably, legislative jobs but I digress), so it is perceived that a specific prohibition justifies the citation while application of a 'judgment call' ordinance like 'reckless endangerment' leaves the prosecution open to claims of a double standard, or discrimination against a particular ethnicity, or other claims that will be made to discredit the charge in courtroom proceedings. It's a sad commentary on the current state of our society that we seem to find such measures as this necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Tooth Zach Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Stupid is also extremely popular. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull Creek Cole Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Just like a politician -- take something that there's already laws for and that everyone will agree upon -- and claim it's your own, original idea. Next, you stand on a soap box and loudly proclaim what a great deed you have done. Unfortunately, at the end of the entire month it took to write and legislate this law, the real problems still exist. Despite all the crowing from atop the soap box they have accomplished very little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Nathan C. Riddles, SASS # 7462 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 If you're going to go to the trouble to post a link to something please take the time to do it right & put the http:// in front of it so it will work. http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/anti-celebratory-gunfire-bill-830454.html?cxtype=ynews_rss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cemetery Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Exactly what difference will the bill make if they can't find the shooters? Seems it's already illegal and largely unenforced, just like here. More feel good BS legislation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Exactly what difference will the bill make if they can't find the shooters? Seems it's already illegal and largely unenforced, just like here. More feel good BS legislation. THAT'S what I was tryin' to say!! GG ~ U*S*A flag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 From the article: introduced the bill in honor of 4-year-old Marquel Peters, who was killed on New Year’s Day 2010 when a bullet came through the roof of a DeKalb County church and struck him. There has GOT to be more to the story. Coming through a roof and retaining enough force to kill? Even if it was 7.62 ball, as this story seems to indicate: 4-year old Marquel Peters was in church with his parents. Suddenly, he fell down with an injury in his head. The panic stricken parents rushed him to a nearby hospital and the doctors removed an AK-47 bullet from his head. He had died by then. It seems someone somewhere was celebrating New Year by firing in the air and one of the bullets felled the four year old. The man might not even know what his revelry had done. Ballistics experts are of the opinion that the person could have been as much as three miles away!! Efforts are on to identify the gun and its owner by examining the bullet and checking records in the database. But, yeah, it is stupid. And is already illegal in most places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montana Slick, SASS #64415 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 My sidekick was watching tv when a bullet came thru the roof, missing him by 12 " Sheriffs deputies were target practicing a mile away.Who dunn it?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck D. Law, SASS #62183 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 That was hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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