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82 Brian Kemp’s Stupid Gun Ad

 On today’s episode of the Better Georgia Podcast, we’re talking about candidate Brian Kemp’s recent campaign advertisement and the recent decisions regarding the newly formed election commission. Listen in to learn how Kemp’s ad was made in extremely poor taste, and why Georgians need to pay attention to the Republican-led election commission. You can Subscribe and Listen to the Podcast on iTunes, and be sure to leave us a Rating and Review! If you can’t do what

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

Georgia's Guns on the Better Georgia Podcast
Better Georgia

80 Georgia’s Guns

 This week on the Better Georgia Podcast, we’re talking about gun control and the NRA, twenty years after the Columbine school shooting. As elections come near, we are seeing debate heating up on gun reform, both inside and out of the political sphere. Listen in to learn about how America is commemorating the Columbine massacre of twenty years ago, and how politicians are working for or against gun reform. You can Subscribe and Listen

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

Diverse group of parents at Walton High School hold sign reading "Walton parents are PROUD of our kids for walking out!"
Education

Thousands of students across the state participate in #NationalWalkOutDay

Students in Georgia walked out in droves yesterday in protest of the gun violence that has taken place on campuses around the country. On March 14, students across the nation participated in #NationalWalkOutDay. In Georgia, there have been reports from nearly every corner of the state of students participating in walkouts, hosting moments of silence and organizing school-wide events. One student from South Georgia, described how writing out the names of all the victims of

Casey Cagle

Cagle’s tax cuts for wealthy, those who don’t question the NRA

It’s been a busy week for Ga. Republicans at the Capitol. Lt. Gov. Cagle started this week by slamming Delta Airlines, Georgia’s biggest employer, for ending discounts for NRA members. He decided to punish the airline by striking a provision that would have given Delta a $50 million dollar tax break on jet fuel. Deal, apparently angry that Cagle would go to the mat for gun lobbyists by penalizing a Georgia company that employs 33,000