Posted on 09/29/2005 4:12:17 AM PDT by dawn53
It's definitely not your typical tourist pitch.
"Thinking about a Florida vacation?" the advertisement asks. "A new law in the Sunshine State authorizes nervous or frightened residents to use deadly force."
Ads, fliers, billboards and a Web site are part of a campaign by a national gun control group to warn visitors about Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law that takes effect Saturday.
The law gives broad legal protections to a person who is attacked not only at home, but "any other place where he or she has a right to be," and removes a common-law duty to retreat in the face of attack. A person being attacked will have "the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force," not only at home but in public places.
The law also gives the shooter immunity from criminal and civil charges unless the victim is a police officer.
(Excerpt) Read more at sptimes.com ...
The more well armed, trained, decent folks carrying concealed
firearms the more perps have to worry about anyone they try to rob or anyone in the crowd...
It's great...the perps live in fear of decent folks...just
like God meant for it to be
Evil men should live in fear...24/7
Until they repent and bring forth the appropriate good works of that repentance.
Gun grabber BS.
Teddy Kennedy tried to make that a Federal Law a few yrs back...even if your house was broken into, you would have to retreat out the back door if possible.
The only time you could use force was if you were absolutely cornered.
If my memory serves me right, shortly after the carry laws were liberalized in FL there wer a lot of carjackings and robberies of folks driving rental cars. I guess the perps figured that the out-of-staters would less likely be armed.
Were the FL rental car license plates changed as a result of that, so you can't ID them by the plate?
Better to be tried by 12 than carried by six!
So, don't scare anyone, okay?
BANG! "Stop or I'll shoot!"
There may still be hope for the imperiled British Empire!
Does this include the judge who was caught using the penile pump in court?
Cheers...
You can't ID a rental car anymore by the plate...and you're right, that happened after the carjackings of rentals increased.
Unless your name is Wally West, you can't effectively "retreat" from a gun-toting thug.
This is like not taking a parachute when jumping out of a burning airplane on the off chance that it might not open.
The group who is distributing flyers "warning" that Florida residents can shoot first and must not give the first shot to robbers and rapists, are doing the state a favor.
Since vacationers seldom commit crimes the flyers will more likely help keep out criminals and thus lower the crime rate. This will attract even more vacationers who will feel safer.
Such "shoot first" laws will deter criminals who all admit that they are more afraid of a "nervous" and "frightened" victim who is armed than they are of police.
The group who is distributing flyers "warning" that Florida residents can shoot first and must not give the first shot to robbers and rapists, are doing the state a favor.
Since vacationers seldom commit crimes the flyers will more likely help keep out criminals and thus lower the crime rate. This will attract even more vacationers who will feel safer.
Such "shoot first" laws will deter criminals who all admit that they are more afraid of a "nervous" and "frightened" victim who is armed than they are of police.
My sincere apologies, your lordship.
I should not have assumed the crumbling of Anglican civilization was strictly a phenomenon found in the British Isles, but also something initiated in the colonies and commonwealths...
This group is wasting their money. If four hurricanes did not stop people from coming here, their ads won't have any effect either. I don't know what it is about this state. People just keep a' coming.
An armed society is a polite society-Robert Heinlein
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