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<blockquote data-quote="UPROXX" data-source="post: 59217" data-attributes="member: 81"><img src="https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/stacey-abrams-music-midtown.jpeg?w=1024&amp;h=436&amp;crop=1" alt="stacey abrams music midtown" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getty ImageEarlier this week, it was reported that Atlanta’s <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/music-midtown-festival-2022-lineup/" target="_blank">Music Midtown Festival</a>, which was scheduled for September 17-18 and headlined by Fall Out Boy, Future, Jack White, and My Chemical Romance, was <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/music-midtown-festival-atlanta-canceled-guns/" target="_blank">canceled</a> due to a conflict between organizers’ safety standards and Georgia’s Safe Carry Protection Act. Basically, because the state law allows citizens to carry firearms on public land and the festival’s venue, Piedmont Park, is a state park, organizers were not able to <a href="https://uproxx.com/viral/patton-oswalt-gun-control/" target="_blank">ban guns on festival grounds</a>. Clearly, this was a pretty untenable situation, and rather than break the law, the organizers canceled the event.This move was guaranteed to disappoint and anger plenty of Atlanta residents and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has seized the opportunity to reproach her incumbent opponent Brian Kemp for the results of his “shameful” policies. In a statement, she said:<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/music-midtown-cancelation-stacey-abrams-brian-kemp/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

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