Via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

[T]wo conflicting views were aired when a Senate committee heard testimony on possible legislation to amend Georgia’s 138-year-old law banning firearms at places of “public gatherings.”

 

The committee’s chairman, Sen. Mitch Seabaugh (R-Sharpsburg), has written draft legislation that would allow Georgians with carry licenses to take weapons into most public places other than jails and courtrooms...

 

The move to weaken the current ban on guns at “public gatherings,” including churches and college campuses, comes on the heels of House Bill 89, which became law on July 1. That measure lets people with firearms licenses carry guns into state parks, restaurants that serve alcohol and on mass transit.