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'Music Midtown' Festival Cancels Event
Amid Georgia Gun Ruling

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Posted By: Hazymac, 8/1/2022 10:37:28 PM

Aprominent Atlanta music festival has been canceled amid the recent implementation of new gun laws in Georgia. Music Midtown, a music festival that began in 1996, was set to return to Atlanta on September 17 and 18, with major headliners like Future, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and Jack White. But in a statement posted on its official website, festival organizers confirmed that the event has been canceled for this year, "due to circumstances beyond our control." Refunds will be issued to those who had already purchased tickets. "Hey Midtown fans — due to circumstances beyond our control, Music Midtown will no longer be taking place this year," the statement said.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Morris Wanchuk 8/1/2022 10:57:53 PM (No. 1235107)
Jiminy jillickers!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 8/1/2022 11:03:24 PM (No. 1235108)
Private companies with certain long-term leases could still restrict the possession of guns. On the flip side, businesses with short-term leases, like the kind Music Midtown had for Piedmont Park, could not restrict possession. While the ruling did not empower cities like Atlanta to enforce the rules, it did empower citizens who had paid for tickets to sue organizers if they were denied entry to an event over their possession of legal firearms. OK, then. Sounds like everyone is observing the law - and that's a good thing. And judging by the photo, looks like the event brings more headaches than benefits to the city.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 8/1/2022 11:04:26 PM (No. 1235110)
Apparently, the organizers are afraid (and the fear is beyond their control) that if a mass shooter opens fire on the crowd several people will pull our their own (legally carried) guns and cancel him (or her or it).
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Reply 4 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 8/2/2022 12:52:27 AM (No. 1235137)
" a shooting broke out at a Freaknik-inspired music festival in Sandersville, Georgia, killing two people and causing a stampede. Two men, Brian Keith Rozier and Ryan Rozier, were arrested in connection with the incident." These aren't eeeevil white supremacists doing the shootings. Freaknik is not a bluegrass festival. https://www.41nbc.com/man-arrested-and-charged-with-murder-in-connection-to-larry-mitchell-ball-park-shooting/
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 8/2/2022 1:02:12 AM (No. 1235144)
In credibly stupid. The criminal class has ALWAYS been carrying guns. The laws only prevented the law abiding from carrying.....the people who won't actually cause trouble, unlike the criminals.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: kiwinews 8/2/2022 3:07:22 AM (No. 1235178)
A quick google search confirms that at least one of the Rozier brothers arrested for the Memorial day shooting mentioned in this article was a felon, who was not legally carrying the firearm used. I suspect his brother may not have been a licensed carrier either. My point is, conflating the behaviors of legal and illegal carry firearms owners is ridiculous. And pointing to the Rozier brother's crimes as somehow a result of the Georgia law is irrelevant. Remember, murder is already illegal. Frankly, Piedmont Park is abuts a neighborhood with crime and violence stats to terrify - and that pre-existing lawlessness would have more to do with violence at a music festival than anything done under the Golden Dome of the Capitol.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Attila DiMedici 8/2/2022 7:21:47 AM (No. 1235273)
While those of you pointing out that just banning guns does not keep guns out, many of these types of events ordinarily force all attendees to pass through metal detectors in order to enter the venue. If you ban ALL guns, you simply do not allow anyone with a gun to enter. If you have to allow those legally carrying to enter with their guns, you have to determine who can, and cannot, legally carry a gun. Which is much more difficult. I am not convinced that the metal detectors are a completely effective means to keep out the guns of those who mean to do bad things, but the organizers are.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: F15 Gork 8/2/2022 7:33:14 AM (No. 1235292)
Crowds? Avoid them like the plague.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: TLCary 8/2/2022 8:29:43 AM (No. 1235362)
Self Canceling, when canceling others just isn't enough to give you that Full Karen Feeling.
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