So when the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a headline that was, in part, about gun control advocates not being heard, I kind of got worked up.

Sure, pro-gun lawmakers are pushing pro-gun laws, but the rest? Well....

The Republican-controlled Georgia Legislature is pushing legislation this year aimed at incentivizing the purchase of guns and ammunition with a sales tax holiday and giving a tax credit for Georgians who spend money on gun safety measures.

Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers, who are in the minority, have proposed laws to regulate firearms, but they have to find creative ways to get any of their ideas discussed, such as taking to the chamber floor when Republican bills are up for a vote.

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State Rep. Michelle Au, a Johns Creek Democrat, has filed gun safety bills in recent years, including a waiting period to purchase firearms and a bill that would require background checks be done for every gun purchase, not just those made by federal firearms dealers.

House Bill 1, sponsored this year by Au, would require gun owners to keep loaded firearms away from children. If a child gained access to a gun and injured or killed themselves or someone else, the firearm owner could be charged with a misdemeanor. But that bill, like other Democratic-backed gun control bills in both chambers, never got a hearing.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Brian Strickland, R-McDonough, said the high volume of legislation assigned to his committee — including many gun-related proposals — makes it difficult to give hearings to bills that are unlikely to make it to the GOP-controlled chamber floor. However, he said some bills included “extreme measures” he believes don’t have the support of most Georgians.

Facing those obstacles, Au used the debate over the gun safe bill to walk her colleagues through a series of hypothetical situations, “since I might not get another chance to do this,” she said.

“What if we passed a bill offering families vouchers for buying car seats, but we did not also have a law requiring car seat use for babies and children?” she said. “I think we can recognize how, despite all the good intentions, incentives alone do not work nearly as well as incentives coupled with regulation.”

The gist is that, because these laws didn't get a hearing, they're not being heard at all.

But the truth of the matter is that we don't need a hearing on anything Georgia's anti-gun lawmakers are pushing simply because we've all seen it and debated it endlessly everywhere else.

We've all heard every argument. We just rejected them.

See, not every bill gets a hearing. That's kind of one of the quirks of a legislature and how things are decided. Not everything gets on the agenda for a hearing so a number of bills die quietly without being discussed. When it's a pro-gun bill, the media never acts like this is something awful and undemocratic. They don't even bother to shrug.

The truth is that what people like Au want are all gun control regulations. She tries to liken it to child car seats, but misses so many points that it's laughable. No wonder no one will take her mandatory gun storage bill seriously.

Child car seats are mandated, sure, but that's because there's pretty much no real downside to mandating them and nothing but upside.

Mandatory storage laws are an infringement on the right to keep and bear arms, and will likely be directly responsible for a number of deaths because parents are required to keep guns away from kids. Let's not forget the recent example of a kid in Kentucky who used a gun to defend himself.

That's why they're not getting a hearing. We've seen the arguments and we know why they're complete BS.

We know them because everyone keeps trying to cram them down our throats as if they're the only real option. We've heard them. We just reject them for the absolute stupidity that they are.