{"id":32769,"date":"2022-08-02T03:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T03:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/organizers-cancel-atlanta-music-festival-over-states-gun-laws\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T03:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T03:59:46","slug":"organizers-cancel-atlanta-music-festival-over-states-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/organizers-cancel-atlanta-music-festival-over-states-gun-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers cancel Atlanta music festival over state&#8217;s gun laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Organizers canceled a music festival in Atlanta on Monday partially due to Georgia&#8217;s gun laws, sources told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to circumstances beyond our control, Music Midtown will no longer be taking place this year,\u201d the festival <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MusicMidtown\/status\/1554104695211294721\" target=\"_blank\">shared on Twitter<\/a>.  \u201cWe were looking forward to reuniting in September and hope we can all get back to enjoying the festival together again soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The cancellation is related to legal fallout from a 2014 law expanding the areas in which gun owners are authorized to carry, two sources told the Journal-Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 Safe Carry Protection Act allows gun owners to carry firearms in most public areas without restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The law, passed by then-Gov.  Nathan Deal (R), also allows school districts and religious figures to decide whether to allow firearms in their schools or places of worship, respectively.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"thehill-promo-link\">\n<p>\t\tRep.  Charlie Crist prepares $20 million ad campaign in Florida governor race Biden touts strike that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: &#8216;Justice has been delivered&#8217;<br \/>\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>The Music Midtown festival has historically prohibited weapons, but the 2014 law, called the \u201cguns everywhere\u201d law by critics, could complicate festival rules because of its lack of restrictions on public areas such as Piedmont Park.<\/p>\n<p>The sources added that the owners of the festival, which would have hosted tens of thousands of attendees at Piedmont Park, worried about being sued if they restricted firearms at the event and artists canceling their appearances if weapons were allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellation comes months after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two adults, thrusting the gun debate back into the forefront of politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers canceled a music festival in Atlanta on Monday partially due to Georgia&#8217;s gun laws, sources told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. \u201cDue to circumstances beyond our control, Music Midtown will no longer be taking place this year,\u201d the festival shared on Twitter. \u201cWe were looking forward to reuniting in September and hope we can all get &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/organizers-cancel-atlanta-music-festival-over-states-gun-laws\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Organizers cancel Atlanta music festival over state&#8217;s gun laws<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33612,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/atlantas-canceled-music-midtown-festival-puts-lax-gun-laws-under-scrutiny\/","url_meta":{"origin":32769,"position":0},"title":"Atlanta&#8217;s canceled Music Midtown festival puts lax gun laws under scrutiny","date":"August 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment on this storyCommentAs gun-control legislation stalls at the federal level, developments in the music festival circuit have underscored the impact of state laws: Atlanta's Music Midtown festival, originally set for next month, was canceled Monday because of a Georgia court ruling that prevented organizers from banning guns on festival\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32204,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/atlantas-music-midtown-festival-canceled-over-gun-law-changes-billboard\/","url_meta":{"origin":32769,"position":1},"title":"Atlanta&#8217;s Music Midtown Festival Canceled Over Gun Law Changes \u2013 Billboard","date":"August 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The long-running Music Midtown festival at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, scheduled for Sept. 17-18 with headliners My Chemical Romance, Future, Jack White and Fallout Boy, has been called off, according to a statement issued by festival organizers. 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