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Dick Yarbrough: Beating plowshares into pistols at state Capitol
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Son of a gun. Rep. Rick Jasperse, R-Jasper, is at it again. Georgia’s version of Wyatt Earp was the chief gunslinger in getting a bill passed in 2014 that was intended to let us lock-and-load most anywhere we want — libraries, churches, bars, airports — but he and his posse couldn’t talk the Board of Regents into letting students in our colleges and universities pack heat. (“Good Lord, Purvis!