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Democratic lawmakers call for special session on guns

The crowd at a press conference calling for a special legislative session on guns
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The crowd at a press conference calling for a special legislative session on guns

Democratic lawmakers in Georgia are calling on the governor to convene a special session to address gun violence.

The call comes a week after police arrested a man for a shooting in midtown Atlanta that left a woman dead and four other injured.

Democrats said several gun control measures — such as requiring background checks on all gun purchases and “red flag” laws that temporarily take firearms away from gun owners who have been identified as a danger to themselves or others — poll well across party lines.

In an interview this week with WSB TV, Governor Kemp ruled our a special session focused on firearms. Kemp said there is a lot of posturing by politicians right now and that he is continuing to gather facts on the individual involved in the shooting and the circumstances that led to the incident.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.