Another GA mass (shrug) shooting | 'Buckhead Dems' need a "talkin' to"

<p>Ho hum; <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/2026/10/mass-shooting-homecoming-vienna-georgia/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>another mass shooting</strong></a> in the US takes <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=e4b332bf7a222aeb4313912868b810b1a850baac4389aed53848be8144bbaf5dJmltdHM9MTc5MTI0NDgwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=10e29c89-79eb-6630-1260-8b5e7852670e&psq=WGXA+TV+Vienna+shooting&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93Z3hhLnR2L25ld3MvbG9jYWwvdHdvLWtpbGxlZC0zNS1pbmp1cmVkLWluLXNob290aW5nLWF0LXZpZW5uYS1ibG9jay1wYXJ0eQ" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>the lives of two (hopefully that&#39;ll be all) and inuring nearly three dozen more in rural Vienna, Georgia </strong></a>over the weekend.</p><p>The existence of a block party didn&#39;t cause it. The town not having a police department didn&#39;t cause it. That<a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/2026/10/vienna-georgia-hunts-for-answers-after-mass-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong> &#39;everybody&#39;s packing&#39; in rural Dooly County</strong></a> (and <a href="https://protectwithbear.com/blog/georgia-gun-laws" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>throughout Georgia</strong></a> and the U.S., let&#39;s be honest) certainly was - at minimum - contributory. </p><p>=+=+=+=</p><p>Patricia Murphy, writing for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, found a handful of prominent &#39;Buckhead Democrats&#39; - who lived in and/or led civic organizations within Atlanta while Keisha Lance Bottoms was mayor - who&#39;ve <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/10/murphy-buckhead-keisha-bottoms/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>announced she won&#39;t have their vote.</strong></a></p><p>That&#39;s bad enough; that they&#39;re shortsighted enough to be swayed to vote <em>for</em> Rick Jackson? Sorry, but WTF? If you couldn&#39;t vote for Brian Kemp or Donald Trump (I mean, did you?) than voting <em>for</em> Rick Jackson is twice as awful as just deciding not to vote in that particular race. </p><p>Public safety is what comes up most often with these voters, but they don&#39;t want to credit Bottoms&#39; term as mayor being what led to Buckhead having an additional police substation or the city getting the Atlanta Public Safety Training facility deep-pocketed Buckhead movers and shakers pushed into existence (including many of these same prominent &#39;Buckhead Democrats&#39;). </p><p>I, too, have psychological scars from COVID-era At