Guns Everywhere

[Content Note: Guns.]

Last week, I mentioned that Republican Georgia Governor Nathan Deal had signed a "guns everywhere" bill into law, which allows registered gun owners "to carry their weapons into churches, schools, libraries and bars." And elsewhere.

Which means, among other things, that stories like this will become increasingly common:

A man carrying a gun in a holster prompted parents at a children's baseball game to halt play and round up the children behind a dugout, but authorities say no crime was committed.

Parents and others at the Forsyth County park north of Atlanta flooded the 911 center with 22 calls about the man Tuesday evening.

Parent Karen Rabb tells WSB-TV the man was asking people if they saw his gun, saying there's nothing anyone could do about it.

Forsyth County sheriff's deputies questioned the man, and found that he had a valid gun permit. Authorities said that since the man made no verbal threats or gestures, they couldn't arrest him.

Sheriff Duane Piper said the man had the right to carry the gun, but called his conduct inappropriate.

I think it's really neat (by which I mean terrible) that brandishing a weapon, asking people if they see it, and telling them there's nothing they can do about it doesn't constitute making "verbal threats or gestures."

I am not part of the gun culture. I'm part of the no-gun culture. But there's no room for a no-gun culture anymore, not when people are allowed to take guns anywhere and everywhere.

[H/T to Aphra_Behn.]