Posted on 03/09/2018 7:17:17 AM PST by GIdget2004
Well I’ve lived in Tampa for 68 years so I have some idea about what gun rights we have enjoyed (and lost) over the years. I used to ride my motorcycle around town with my buddies with rifles slung on our backs when I was 14. I bought an M-1 carbine when I was 15 for $20. I also had to wait until I was 21 to vote and purchase alcohol. There were no age limits on purchase of firearms until the Federal GCA of 1968. It is a shame that as the population of this state has grown that the infringement of that freedom has steadily diminished over time. I know the difference between freedom (having lived it) and the illusion of freedom. Only a free people own guns.
There is none that I know of.
Renegade wrote:
“How is restricting a person who can carry full auto in the military from purcasing semi- auto in civilian life reasonable ? All but one if the mass shooting preps were over 21.”
To answer your first question:
It’s not reasonable.
To answer your second point:
Restricting the sale to 21 and older wouldn’t have stopped the mass shooters.
That’s why I asked bigbob to clarify.
You say Florida has no minimum age for going hunting (I assume with an adult) and that doesn’t surprise me.
My state had, until recently, a minimum age of twelve and the legislature made a move to eliminate it. Of course everyone tut-tutted (or worse) about how six year olds would be roaming the woods with rifles and most were skeptical of the change. I’ll even concede that I even found myself wondering if it was a good idea.
Then one of the sponsors pointed out that very few other states put a minimum age on hunting with an adult. That bit of information all of a sudden clarified matters. After all, those states aren’t littered with bodies of hunters mowed down by six year olds.
This is why it’s so important to get a foot in the door with an idea, good or bad. Once someone tries it, and all the naysayers are proven wrong (or sometimes right) others can follow along knowing what happened in other states or similar situations.
It’s also why we need to get concealed carry permitted in as many schools across the country as possible. Not only is that the best way to protect the kids, but it will rapidly spread once it’s proven to work, as it will. Get the “Gun Free Zone” signs off our schools and replace them with “Our Staff Carries” and shooters will either pick softer targets, or will be stopped much sooner if they do decide to shoot up a school.
Yeh me too. Growing up in Jax with the rest of my relatives in Tampa all the guys had guns in their gun racks in their trucks. The school parking lot was full of them. You could go out anywhere in the woods and target shoot. Not one person I ever knew got shot.
“Not a damn thing. But removing rights in the middle of a hysteria feels so right.’
That is how Rahm Emanual and the leftists always play it. They invented the tact. That’s why I suspect this was contrived with Cruz as a known potential powder keg and assailant, and they simply allowed it to happen. My right to believe in conspiracies and false flags is as righteous as theirs to take our rights?
Reasonable my ass. He’s a piece of shit for signing it.
Thank God, now the shootings will finally end. It will be like medieval times and stuff when guns didn’t exist
“Prohibits people deemed by a judge to be “mentally defective” from purchasing a firearm”
You’re a Trump supporter no gun for you.
“Prohibits people deemed by a judge to be “mentally defective” from purchasing a firearm”
You’re a Trump supporter no gun for you.
Sorry but if Scott is going to be a cuckservative and stab conservatives in the back, then it’s time for him to go. Rick Scott is a Democrat with a R by his name.
Cuckservatives Republicans need to be purged from the party.
And I bet the NRA endorses Scott.
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So how much do you bet? Are you going to put your money where your mouth is?
I mean, they are suing him now. So wouldn’t that weaken their lawsuit?
Actually, I think they’re suing Pam Bondi.
But I digress.
It’ll be interesting to see. NRA won’t endorse Bill Nelson. And if Rick Scott actually runs, I think NRA will support him.
Now that the suit is filed, I hope NRA has “judge shopped” wisely like the left does...the age element of the law is CLEARLY unconstitutional.
I wish the "Tea Party" crowd felt that way about Scott when he was running against Bill McCollum for Governor...
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