Second Amendment sanctuary gun law in Georgia

[jwc0305]

Resolutions such as this, and in these times, should be able to be voted upon in general elections in order to keep the "elected officials" who are supposed to represent their constituents, from only voting as "they" see fit. It is far past time to make elected officials live up to their campaign promises, and if they don't, constituents should have a QUICK way to have them removed from office and replaced.

 

[spencer60]

It hurts a lot. Our legislative session is, by Constitutional provision, only 40 days long. Legislators only have so much time to introduce bills, read bills, confer about bills, debate bills, hold hearings on bills, and, ultimately, vote on bills. Then the same process that takes place in one house has to take place in the other house. The bottom line is that a finite number of bills can be passed every year. When the 40th day ends, all bills on which final passage has not yet happened die (if it's the second year) or wait until next year (if it's the first year). And it takes a certain amount of political "capital" to get any bill passed.

There's also only so much appetite for bills on a particular topic, say, gun laws.

The net result is that any bill that is introduced is competing against all other bills for legislators' limited time and attention, and every gun bill that is introduced is especially competing against all other gun bills. With that in mind, when it's hard these days to get any gun bill passed, why would we burn up precious time, attention, and capital on a do-nothing, feel-good bill when there are so many other useful things we could be accomplishing in the legislature?

That's actually a very good point. If we're going to spend political capital it should probably be spent in something useful.