Georgia readers, check out Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ gun views as voting day approaches:
“…people get shot in the streets because some bigot decided he got to stand his ground.” SecondAmendmentDaily.com, Stacey Abrams Video
“We need waiting periods because we know that we need time to find out what’s happened. We should make certain that no violent offender, especially a domestic abuser, has the ability to terrorize domestic abusers with a gun.”
“We have to make certain that automatic weapons and semi-automatic weapons that fire high-caliber rounds, that assault weapons are not allowed in Georgia.”
“I want common sense gun regulation because I believe in the Second Amendment. And if we want to protect the right to bear arms, we’ve got to protect the people in the state of Georgia and that is my mission.” Politics.myAJC.com, Abrams was Asked if She’ll Take Away Guns
“I think we have to begin with universal background checks. We have to ban assault weapons and the accouterments that make those weapons so dangerous. We have to, I think, investigate extreme protective risk orders, which allow interventions when someone poses a danger to either themselves or to others. …I would repeal campus carry…” MDJOnline.com, Stacey Abrams Talks Incentives, Guns, and Education
“It’s OK to talk about taking away weapons that have never belonged on our streets. It’s OK to demand a three-day waiting period. It is OK to say that background checks are necessary because not everyone who has the right to bear arms deserves the arms they want to bear.”
“There are those of us who are told our paths are going to be blocked by barriers that are created by folks not ourselves. That because we are women, because we are people of color, because we are poor, because we believe that right to bear arms does not mean the right to bear arms everywhere, any time, anywhere, we are told our beliefs are permanently off the table.” Politics.myADJC.com, How a Mis-Fired Gun-Related Tweet Put Abrams on the Defensive