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First, your use of the term "gun toting moron" is utterly insulting. The statistics regarding CCW carriers speak for themselves. They are not "gun toting morons" and your use of the term betrays your underlying disgust for something you obviously do not understand.

Second, humans, INCLUDING POLICE AND OTHER ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TRAINED IN THE USE OF HANDGUNS regularly kill innocents. There dozens of articles each year about police killing people with cell-phones, car keys, etc. in their hands. There are similar quantities of articles documenting TRAINED POLICE who are truly gun toting morons killing innocent residents in no-knock and other para-military raids.

Your Lakeland Florida story is a sad but ancedotal story that can not be used as a legal precedent. This was not the outcome when a deranged man drove through the window at a Luby's in Waco, Tx and killed 23 people. The management there now dearly wishes that some of its patrons had been armed. But you clearly have an agenda and in you self-righteous, self-enlightened arrogance look down your all knowing nose and call any civilian carry and side-arm as a gun toting moron. That is the language of liberals.

The "gun toting morons " I refer to are those who insist on carrying open in public, and more so inside businesses. I have been carrying concealed here in Florida for 8 years, and I certainly do know what I speak of. I know that thankfully here in Florida , open carry is Illegal, unless carrying to, and from a dwelling, or hunting. This is a very good idea since Florida has a 10-15-life law, which states , if one commits a crime while openly armed, he faces a minimum 10 years in prison. So the buffoons who think open carry in bars, is a good idea, should realize that here in Florida a simple bar room scuffle can mean a minimum of 10 years in prison. Here in Florida we know the open carrying of a weapon is too easily an intimidating factor, especially in incidences of minor car accidents, and such.I also disagree that law enforcement "regularly" kill "innocent" individuals. I also think you should deal with your hostility toward the police, as not to sound like a anti establishment nut job.