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This makes for interesting reading:  Massive errors in the Violence Policy Center’s “Concealed Carry Killers”

CNN makes the bill seem pretty controversial: Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed a wide-ranging gun bill into law Wednesday that has critics howling and proponents applauding.   House Bill 60, or the Safe Carry Protection Act of 2014 -- which opponents have nicknamed the "guns everywhere bill" -- specifies where Georgia residents can carry weapons. Included are provisions that allow residents who have concealed carry permits to take guns into some bars, churches, school zones, government buildings and certain parts of airports. . . . Fox News' headline uses the word "unprecedented," but it includes a quote that puts the new law in a better perspective. Jerry Henry of GeorgiaCarry.org told GPB News he doesn’t expect to see a surge in gun sales or an increase in gun-related businesses in the state. He noted that other states have far less restrictive gun laws than Georgia.  The point is that other states already allow concealed carry in all those other places and th...

Police have determined that the person acted in self-defense.  From the Chicago Tribune: A 53-year-old South Austin man with a valid concealed carry permit was able to shoot at two men who tried to accost him outside of his home early this morning.   The incident happened about 2:40 a.m. on the 5400 block of West Van Buren Street, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan.  The man was walking from his garage to the front of his home when two males in hoodies appeared in a gangway between his home and the neighbor's home, Sullivan said.  One of the two men pulled a handgun from his waistband and pointed at the man who took out his own gun and managed to fire several times at the males, Sullivan said. The males fled the area without being struck and the shooting did not result in any property damage, police said. . . . .

There might not be many permitted concealed handguns in New York state, but fortunately this pizza delivery man was able to protect himself. A gang of robbers attacked a pizza deliveryman just before 10:30 p.m. Monday as he brought food to a house in the 400 block of Cornwall Avenue, near Erie County Medical Center.   In the front hallway of the house, one of the robbers, who wore a mask and had a brown hoodie pulled over his face, hit the deliveryman on the head with a hammer, according to police.  The masked man also displayed what appeared to be a gun, police said.  But then, the deliveryman told investigators, he pulled out his own handgun and fired a shot, striking the masked man. The rest of the gang scattered. . . . Note that even the Buffalo News notes: " They messed with the wrong pizza guy. "