This girls murder after being abducted while hiking on the AT here in GA was the reason GA finally started making carry much easier.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mer...420j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8I have no idea if she would have carried if legal, but at the time, due to nonsensical laws carry was all but impossible where she was hiking. The section of trail cut across the back corner of a state park where guns are not allowed. The rest of the hike was on National Forest BUT... since that area was also part of a Wildlife Management area only hunters with a permit to hunt the area with guns suitable for the season could carry a gun. Since it was small game season she could have had a 22 or shotgun with #2 shot or smaller if she had a hunting license and avoided the state park.
After this incident the laws were finally changed, Now if you have a permit you can carry almost anywhere.
She was beaten and kept alive in the back of a serial killers van for 4 days. She refused to give up the correct PIN for her ATM which helped catch her killer. He kept trying false numbers and was seen on a lot of video which eventually led to his capture. Unfortunately too late. The state, with permission of the family promised to waive the death penalty if he took them to the body. GA kept their promise, but they had already uncovered evidence in his van linking him to similar murders on trails in Florida and NC. GA sent him to FL to stand trial and get the death penalty.
