Gun foes warn Florida tourists about new law

The Globe and Mail (Canada) ^ | Oct 4, 2005 | By CURT ANDERSON

[proud_yank]

"Do not argue unnecessarily with local people," it says. "If someone appears to be angry with you, maintain to the best of your ability a positive attitude, and do not shout or make threatening gestures."

Need we say more, an armed society is a polite society!!

I personally like the last comment the best. Numskull.

[TomServo]

Already posted here.

[BenLurkin]

If the tourists are criminals -- maybe they should just stay in Detroit.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

The Brady Bunchs' time would be better spent informing Florida car-jackers that their behaviour will no longer be tolerated.

[goldstategop]

The Brady gun banners are DU-espicable. All that Florida's new law does is to extend the "Castle Is Your Home" provision to your car or any other place you have a right to be and drops the nonsensical requirement you must retreat or evacuate beforehand in order to defend yourself. You can now indeed "Stand Your Ground" and defend yourself where you legitimately have a right to be. And that's what has the gun banners up in arms: they think you have no right to defend your life when someone is coming to kill you without chickening out first.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[SampleMan]

"There is no other state in the nation — and no other civilized nation on Earth — that has a law like this," Brady Campaign spokesman Peter Hamm said. "It could cause the most aggressive people in society to overreact."

1. Makes me proud to be a Floridian.

2. Far from his assertion, it will cause the most aggressive people to tone it down or end up as worm bait.

[GOP_1900AD]

RE: "It seems like everybody ought to be packing a piece," said Mr. Ramm, a visitor from Ukiah, Calif., who found out about the law Monday from a gun-control group handing out leaflets at Miami International Airport. "I don't know if that's the right thing to do."

GOP_1900AD, who hates all the Communist carpetbaggers who have taken over California said "I can't wait for my next vacation in Florida - I'll be packing well for my trip. And I look forward to the day when I'll be packing well for grocery shopping here at home!"

[Rakkasan1]

yeah, like I normally go looking for arguement,shouting and threatening gestures. that would be like being married.

furthermore, who gives a damn what some Canucks think unless it's for betting odds on the Stanley Cup.

[Boiling point]

The kids are on fall break and we are taking them to Florida tomorrow. Take THAT leftist weenies! I'll be sure to wear my NRA shirt that says " the second amendment, Americas original homeland security."

[FleetBlog]

In Oklahoma, the Democrats tried to pass a stealth gun control bill that prohibited any type of gun in a public park. The bill had a hidden amendment next to a bunch of funding for new hookups for RVs, golf course funds, etc. My buddy, State Senator Clark Jolley who also happens to be a fellow NRA member, went around frantically telling all that would hear that this bill would absolutely kill their NRA rating. In 5 minutes time this bill was DEAD.

[Grut]

We should be spending the money spent on guns on art, literature, science and other things that would advance our society instead of stagnate it.

"When I hear the word 'pistol', I reach for my culture." - Herman Goering (more or less).

[sassbox]

Darn, what a shame. I just had my heart set on going to Tampa next month to pick fights with random strangers :-(

[Peace will be here soon]

"The united states has the highest rate of deaths by guns in the world. A gun makes killing someone much easier than stabing them, strangling them, or killing them by other means."

Another twisted facts comment. The US has the highest rate of death by guns in the world, BUT, take away suicides and its ranking drops dramatically.

Homicide deaths by guns in the US is significantly lower than many other countries. Take those homicides committed in inner cities away, and its a whole other story.

[GOP_1900AD]

Excellent!

[xcamel]

Think they need a wholesale EMS callout to all available orthopedic doctors for the mass hand-wringing casualties?

[o_zarkman44]

Florida just became a safer place for tourism is the message I see in the story.
I guess the anti gun people feel safer in places like Detroit, Chicago, LA, and NY where criminals have all the guns? Should be a boom for tourism yes?

[michaelbfree]

It could cause the most aggressive people in society to overreact

The most aggressive people in society are the criminals and hopefully, someone will put a cap in their ass...

[billnaz]

I would submit that tourists are now safer in Florida than they used to be.

[tang-soo]

The whole right to carry movement got a huge boost when Florida passed it's concealed carry law more than 10 years ago. The law came into existence in large part due to a German couple being murdered shortly after arriving to the US and leaving the airport in Miami.

I remember the gun grabbers claiming it was going to be mass murders. A year after the law went into effect, some idiots from the gun grabber lobby entered the Dade County's sheriff office and "Demanded" to know how many shootings involved folks with the new permits. His reply, "You don't have to demand. Come back tomorrow and I'll have your info". Answer, "0 shootings and one license revoked due to drunk driving incident." Slap down.

[Jeff Gordon]

Need we say more, an armed society is a polite society!

That was my thought when I heard the "warnings."

I really do not see them as warnings. I see them as advice about being polite that should be given to incoming foriegn tourists not matter what their detinastion state is.