Lawmakers debate allowing some to have guns in Georgia churches – By Maya T. Prabhu (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) / Feb 24 2020
A Georgia senator wants to allow some gun owners to carry weapons in the state’s places of worship, and schools operated by those religious organizations.
State Sen. Bill Heath, R-Bremen, said the legislation is designed to allow churches and other places of worship, and the schools they run, to protect themselves.
Heath said a number of high profile shootings at places of worship across the country, including a December incident in Texas in which armed security shot and killed the gunman, prompted him to file the legislation this year.
“It would be a huge disservice to the members and attendees of Georgia’s places of worship to continue to leave them as sitting ducks for evil people who seek to murder and maim them in the one place where they should be most safe,” he said.
A Senate panel on Monday discussed Senate Bill 357, which aims to allow places of worship to allow selected licensed gun owners to carry their weapons on the property.
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