Category: Gun Safety

  • Elections really do have consequences

    Pregnant women in Franklin County and neighboring areas of northeast Georgia can no longer deliver babies at St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital just outside Lavonia. But Georgians and, indeed, all Americans now have the privilege of being able to buy gun silencers without having to pony up a $200 tax. How, you might wonder, are…

  • Are guns and abortion coming home to haunt Gov. Kemp?

    (This is my latest column written for the Georgia Trust for Local News. Starting September 19, 20204, it is being published in more than 20 daily and weekly papers in Middle and South Georgia. — CH) On Monday, one of Georgia’s two U.S. senators, Democrat Jon Ossoff, conducted a hearing in Decatur on the impact…

  • A crop of things sown

    Last week’s shooting at Apalachee High School in Barrow County put me in mind of Ralph McGill.  More specifically, it was The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s editorial response to the shooting that put me in mind of McGill. McGill, of course, was the legendary Atlanta Constitution editor whose front page columns served more than a half-century ago…

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