@pleiades – I’ll give the high level view, so keep in mind that there are lots and lots of nuances.
The south side of the city of Atlanta and one or two nearby suburbs are predominantly black. it is not unusual to have a couple of shootings a night (where they find the dead people on the sidewalk in the morning). THese are largely but not totally gang or drug related.
Outside of the inner city, Atlanta is ringed by suburbs. All of them are more caucasian in various degrees. As a rule, outside the beltway, people are better educated, average household income is higher, and houses are larger. The sort of crime you see in the suburban ring is mostly domestic violence, although there is the occasional home invasion or carjacking – although both of those are much more prevalent in the city. Yes, there are bank robberies and the occasional murder, but again, at a lower frequency. And there are a few suburbs – mostly near the interstates – where there is drug trafficking,.
Once you’re outside the metro areal (15–16 counties around Atlanta), the state is largely rural, with occasional crimes of all types, but not at the rate of Atlanta.
So .. does any of this argue for carrying firearms everywhere? No. The only potential case would be in the inner city. Out in the burbs and rural georgia, the “Carry Everywhere” is a politically motivated action, not a quantifiably justifiable one.