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Brian Kemp

Disastrous candidates Cagle and Kemp head for runoff

After failing to win the majority of the vote in the primary, candidates Casey Cagle and Brian Kemp are headed for a Republican runoff in July that analysts say is “likely to be both an expensive and nasty campaign.” So far, Kemp and Cagle have already been leading nasty, extremist and backwards campaigns. Kemp aired an anti-immigration ad that parrots Trump and spewed his xenophobic, hateful rhetoric on a bus tour across the state. “These people

Education

Arming school staff would endanger students, teachers

Laurens School District near Warner Robins, Ga. is becoming the first school district to allow staff members to carry guns in order to protect students, despite all the research showing that increasing the amount of guns at schools decreases student safety. Although Trump has touted arming teachers and school personnel as a solution to school shootings, the high number of accidental shootings that have occurred in classrooms and school buildings by trained professionals should scare

Brian Kemp

Georgia is sick of gun “jokes,” ready for legislation

Competition for Georgia’s top political positions is starting to reveal just how out of touch GOP candidates really are about gun control. While a new poll shows that Georgians of all political stripes are increasingly in favor of tightening gun laws and regulations, a gubernatorial candidate can be seen pointing his gun at a minor in a vile TV ad and one candidate for lieutenant governor has challenged another to a shootout. Incompetent failure Brian

Education

National School Walkout this Friday

This Friday, thousands of students will walk out of class in schools all over the United States to protest the lack of change in gun regulations as a result of mass school shootings. The National School Walkout was started by Lane Murdoch, a 16-year-old who grew up just 20 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School – where 20 students were killed in a mass shooting in 2012. The movement started as a Change.org petition following

Domestic Gun Violence

While students march, Georgia’s conservatives do the NRA’s bidding

According to the March For Our Lives website, there were at least eleven satellite marches across Georgia. An estimated 30,000 people attended the Atlanta march alone. Two Norcross students, Nia Hemphill and Kiara Edwards, were some of the earliest participants waiting for the march to start. “I think that it’s important to come out and march because I feel like you need your voice to be heard,” Hemphill said. “Guns have no place in school.

Education

Save a life: March For Our Lives

This Saturday, March 24, students and people of all ages, led by survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, are headed to the nation’s Capital to demand stricter gun control laws. Marches on the same date are also planned in cities around Georgia. Here’s more info. on how you can take part: Athens Atlanta (Center) Atlanta (West) Clarkesville Covington Dahlonega Ellenwood Rome Savannah Statesboro Watkinsville About a week ago yet another school