A Georgia law makes it nearly impossible for festival organizers to stop people from carrying guns among the alcohol-fueled crowds, with some convinced that Atlanta — center of the hip-hop music scene — will lose more music festivals and performances
“All of these things are culminating at the moment when we should be coming out of COVID with music festivals and people gathering, a lot of economic activity," he told The Associated Press.
Phillip Evans, a gun rights activist who’d previously sued the Atlanta Botanical Garden over its gun-free policy, has said he had warned Music Midtown organizers that their policy of banning guns was contrary to state law. Evans' suit prompted the 2019 state Supreme Court ruling that said private companies with a certain type of lease on public land could not ban guns.
Cancelling the event over the gun law would make sense from Live Nation's perspective, said Timothy Lytton, a law professor at Georgia State University. Kemp accused Abrams and other Democrats of “pushing” critical narratives of Georgia’s firearms landscape to distract from inflation that he blames on the party’s policies.
Kemp told reporters last week that he wasn’t worried about attempts by Democratic governors, including in California, to lure business away from Georgia.
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