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Monday, January 09, 2023

Daniel Ruth: When the Florida Legislature, whose motto is: "Good Governance Is Highly Overrated," begins its annual palm greasing in March one can rest assured it will immediately take up a measure dear to the heart of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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"What might that be? Better schools? Higher pay for teachers. True insurance reform that doesn't impoverish homeowners? Criminal justice reform? Environmental preservation?

Oh puleeze, don't be so silly! All that stuff actually might require work. It might require doing something that benefits the citizenry. It might " dare we even whisper it " require acting like real adults. Oh the heresy of it all.

Instead, the denizens of Tallahassee will pass a bill essentially doing away with any remote semblance of reasonable gun control in this state by allowing gun owners to carry firearms in public without the irritation of having to obtain a permit.

And thus, the hills will be alive with the sound of AR-15s to settle disputes over parking spaces, or loud music, or because a spouse put too much tabasco in the meat loaf.

What used to the resolved with a few well-chosen F-bombs could now result in body bags.

Of course, just a pinch of irony abounds. The same state that gave us 49 murders in the Pulse nightclub shooting and 17 more murders in the Parkland school shooting now thinks it is a great idea to make it easier for unhinged Billy Bob goobers to publicly carry firearms without a permit.

Do you think there might be a hit Broadway play in here somewhere? "The Book of Moron"?"

more at the Tampa Bay Times link

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2023-01-08 04:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Who cares? Florida is a -------- state.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-01-08 05:31 PM | Reply

Instead, the denizens of Tallahassee will pass a bill essentially doing away with any remote semblance of reasonable gun control in this state by allowing gun owners to carry firearms in public without the irritation of having to obtain a permit.

Honestly, I was shocked to learn a couple years back that Floriduh wasn't already permitless open carry.

#3 | Posted by censored at 2023-01-08 08:08 PM | Reply

Completely nuts.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2023-01-08 08:14 PM | Reply

"As crowds of people milled through downtown Orlando on New Year's Eve,bigoted anti-Jewish slogans were projected overhead across the top of an office tower on Central Boulevard.
The hate speech, which prompted outrage online and was condemned by local officials and Jewish faith leaders, closed the year with a sight that was all-to-familiar in 2022: a flagrant public display of antisemitism."

Let's be sure to make sure those people that did that are fully armed. Florida, my home state, a place I loved is becoming a total s-hole state because of Republicans and those that support them.

#5 | Posted by YAV at 2023-01-08 09:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Florida, my home state, a place I loved is becoming a total s-hole state because of Republicans and those that support them. #5 | Posted by YAV

Ok, but the more we concentrate the idiots into Florida, the better other states become. For example, Georgia is becoming less stupid with every election.

And in a few decades, Floriduh GOPhers will come face to face with the magnificent combination of moving to the state with the lowest elevation and the anthropogenic climate change they deny. The result will be a very slight increase in our national IQ as natural selection does what it does.

#6 | Posted by censored at 2023-01-09 06:32 AM | Reply

Wait for it. At some point there going to be a reality show about the families of mass shooters. Maybe not yet, but at some point. We as a nation appear to be fascinated with them.

#7 | Posted by moder8 at 2023-01-09 02:08 PM | Reply

What a shame. I would have liked to visit Florida again, someday.

#8 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2023-01-09 02:11 PM | Reply

"Here in the 21st Century the Republicans have become the new Know Nothing Party. Just as the original Know Nothings employed fear, bigotry, ignorance and hate to motivate its base, so too does the Republican Party."

John Atcheson

#9 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2023-01-09 02:46 PM | Reply

The entire south can 'have at' for all I care.
Uneducated bible freaks and geezers...

I still think Bill Burr had the best advice on how
to stop all of the violence against and by police
in this country. Make all of the cops black...

Then whites wouldn't be so eager to go around
waving guns all the time.

Another good idea, make bullets cost 5k a piece...
Tough to shoot if you can't afford ammo...

p.s. (and for the gun freaks out there that don't
like what I say)... Feck you and the Ninny Goat
you road in on.

#10 | Posted by earthmuse at 2023-01-09 04:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I don't believe the Constitution says anything about making the manufacturing of guns illegal in the United States, does it?

#11 | Posted by YAV at 2023-01-09 09:00 PM | Reply

"Another good idea, make bullets cost 5k a piece...
Tough to shoot if you can't afford ammo..."

Idiots like you are why I reload and keep plenty of powder, primers, brass, lead on hand.

#12 | Posted by willowby at 2023-01-09 09:43 PM | Reply

#11

Only if you get a majority of Commucrats on the SC, which I don't see happening soon.

#13 | Posted by willowby at 2023-01-09 10:00 PM | Reply

I don't believe the Constitution says anything about making the manufacturing of guns illegal in the United States, does it?

You can't do through back-door that which you can't do through the front-door.

Step back a minute and think about what you wrote. The Constitution is about the formation of a government it is not about governance. Governance considers the Constitutional restraints on the government. The government can't infringe on the right to bear arms, with certain exceptions. Banning US gun manufacture or $5000 dollar bullets or any number of other knee jerk solutions is a run on the back-door. Ain't happnin.

#14 | Posted by et_al at 2023-01-10 03:13 AM | Reply

6 year olds as a well regulated militia?

front door?
back door?

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2023-01-10 04:35 AM | Reply

"Ain't happnin."

Indeed it ain't.

Thoughts and Prayers.
Nothing Can Be Done.

Thanks, Second Amendment!

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-10 09:11 AM | Reply

It's as if Liberals are trying as hard as they can to accept reality. The cities and states with the most restrictive gun laws also have some of the highest crime rates. So, logic dictates that using examples of gun violence to talk about a state's gun laws being bad when other states go through the exact same thing (literally, like the EXACT same thing) with laws that the writer wants.

Make no mistake about it, to get to that level of ineptitude requires effort. It doesn't just happen. And that effort almost always stems from partisan politics instead of being concerned with society as a whole.

#17 | Posted by humtake at 2023-01-10 12:11 PM | Reply

"The cities and states with the most restrictive gun laws also have some of the highest crime rates."

^
Why did you switch from "gun" to "crime" like that?

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-10 12:32 PM | Reply

"The cities and states with the most restrictive gun laws also have some of the highest crime rates."

Okay, but that's not a justification to remove some common sense restrictions currently in place. It might not be an argument to tighten gun laws but it certainly doesn't mean we should be doing this like what's being suggested in this article.

I don't know if this will be enacted but it's insane.

It's an opinion piece.

#19 | Posted by eberly at 2023-01-10 12:40 PM | Reply

Recently there was a six year old kid who shot his teacher.

I would like the "Arm The Teachers" crowd
to explain how arming the teacher
would have prevented that.

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-10 01:01 PM | Reply

Florida became gun-friendly when they allowed CCW permits to try to stave off so many car-jackings.

"Jun 16, 2018 The carjacking plague was so rampant that it provided a powerful boost to the concealed carry movement, culminating in Florida's shall issue concealed carry law signed by Rep. Gov. Bob Martinez in 1987."

#21 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2023-01-10 02:14 PM | Reply

"Florida became gun-friendly when they allowed CCW permits to try to stave off so many car-jackings. "

And because it's Floriduh it had nothing to do with reality of course.

"Some studies find that right-to-carry laws reduce violent crime, others find that the effects are negligible, and still others find that such laws increase violent crime. The committee concludes that it is not possible to reach any scientifically supported conclusion because of (a) the sensitivity of the empirical results to seemingly minor changes in model specification, (b) a lack of robustness of the results to the inclusion of more recent years of data (during which there were many more law changes than in the earlier period), and (c) the statistical imprecision of the results."

www.rand.org

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2023-01-10 02:24 PM | Reply

Idiots like you are why I reload and keep plenty of powder, primers, brass, lead on hand.

#12 | Posted by willowby

No you do that because guns are a shortcut to feeling masculine for men who failed in life and dont feel very manly.

#23 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2023-01-10 02:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Florida became gun-friendly when they allowed CCW permits to try to stave off so many car-jackings.

"Jun 16, 2018 The carjacking plague was so rampant that it provided a powerful boost to the concealed carry movement, culminating in Florida's shall issue concealed carry law signed by Rep. Gov. Bob Martinez in 1987."

#21 | Posted by phesterOBoyle

And what was the preferred weapon of choice in those car jackings? Could it have been....GUNS?

So your solution to the problem is MORE OF THE PROBLEM.

#24 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2023-01-10 02:34 PM | Reply

According to Gifford's Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, "Persons licensed to carry a concealed firearm in Florida ... may "briefly and openly display" the firearm to the ordinary sight of another person." I would assume that changing the law so that one no longer needs to apply for a concealed firearm license would not necessarily change that open-carry prohibition. Thus, openly carrying AR-15s around will probably not be legal.

#25 | Posted by flagger at 2023-01-11 12:29 PM | Reply

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