The Campus Carry bill has been assigned to the Georgia Senate's Judiciary Committee, chaired by one Joshua McKoon. McKoon is a fairly reliable friend of the NRA, but he is in the news most recently for taking the floor to condemn a fellow Republican -- a state senator from Jefferson, Georgia -- for making a remark that appeared supportive of the original Ku Klux Klan.
It is a little strange that we'd be having that discussion in 2016, when I thought the Klan's place in Georgia history was well understood. Obviously they were a terrorist organization, as McKoon says, carrying on the war by other means. There is a distinction worth making between the Klan that existed immediately after the war and the one that was 'reborn' around the time of the movie Birth of a Nation. There is a distinction worth making between that second Klan and the one(s) that exist now. Those distinctions are for clarity among historians, though: none of them were any good.
This is Legislative Day 26, if you're counting. 14 more working days until they have to go away and leave us in peace.
The original Klan, under Nathan B Forrest, was intended for other purposes. Construction, helping one's fellow man, reconstruction, rebuilding, forging stronger relations with the money rich North.
ReplyDeleteThat would mean the Klan had 3 phases, not just 2.