Note to FL tourists: 'Behave yourselves and all is fine....." (merged thread)

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Note to tourists: 'Behave yourselves and all is fine....."

Typical Chicken Little from the antis-----------------frankly, I think it sends a good message - dont look to cause trouble and there won't be any!



"Warning that Florida streets have the potential to morph into the O.K. Corral, gun-control advocates will launch an international campaign to alert travelers about a new state law that allows people to use deadly force in self-defense."


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/lo...ce25sep26,0,7481797.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla
 
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warning travlers that fla. has armed honest people is ok but wouldn't be better to warn the criminals? :neener:
 
So I wonder if the airports and other large public venues (I'm already pretty sure the newspapers menitioned won't allow equal time) will allow fliers supporting the law to be posted as well ?
 
Opponents, who call it the "Shoot First Law," warn it could hand itchy trigger fingers a license to kill.
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Aren't these the same people who were spewing the same rhetoric and mistaken presumptions when CCW laws were being passed in the first place?
 
"Warning that Florida streets have the potential to morph into the O.K. Corral, gun-control advocates will launch an international campaign to alert travelers about a new state law that allows people to use deadly force in self-defense."
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Translation: "If you intend to attack, beat, rob, mug, assault, kidnap, murder or rape anyone on your vacation, you should do it somewhere other than Florida."
 
"We're the wild, wild West and I think criminals will abuse it," said Rep. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, one of the few who voted against the measure. "There will be more street fights ... especially if there is a criminal element in a certain area, [and] they won't hesitate to use their guns."
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Has Rep. Eleanor Sobel really expressed a concern that previously law-abiding criminals will abuse the new law by not hesitating to use their guns, or have I misunderstood what she said?
 
"There will be more street fights ... especially if there is a criminal element in a certain area, [and] they won't hesitate to use their guns."
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Is she saying that before the law that criminals wouldn't commit crimes with guns, but now that there's less legal crap in the way of the law abiding to defend themselves that criminals will be MORE LIKELY to commit crimes with guns?

Or is she saying that criminals wouldn't commit crimes with guns but now that "its legal" they will?

What sort of "interstate commerce" is this chick smoking?
 
The group is also running ads in the travel sections of the Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune and likely some London newspapers beginning Sunday.
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Boston, Detriot, Chicago and London.

Well, you gotta hand it to the blissninnies: They sure know their audience!

(No offense at all to the exceptional, rational folk in those blissninny bastions.)
 
This is so utterly retarded that I don't even know where to begin. Florida has extremely strict laws that regulate what happens if someone even so much as pulls a gun on somebody in an unjustified manner. Everyone here who has a concealed weapon or firearm permit from Florida knows that; we've read the heads-on-stakes listing of incidents that Florida sends out with your permit. Such as the woman who pointed an unloaded gun at her auto mechanic because he didn't fix something and went to jail for three years for it.

All of the elements that accompany a justified use of lethal force have to be present in Florida, just like everywhere else. The only difference (in public, anyway, which is where the article's context is) is that you don't have to run from being raped or stabbed--that's right, you can (OMG) defend yourself right there.

Wow, that's just horrible, isn't it?
 
Kinda insulting IMO

To imply that tourists are only coming here to take advantage of us residents. It is insulting. Now if they don't like it, they can just stay home. I am not the least bit interested in how they perceive us or view our rights. If they live here a while, they might think like we do. I do know that for a while, and probably still, thugs would target tourists because they knew that the tourist would not be around when the trial came up, and they would be released. You would think that the antis would be interested in informing them of that.
 
At least the article was pretty balanced. Any time you see a VPC rep in the quote you know it's going to be utter nonsense.
 
I guarantee the vast majority of native Floridians would love to see less tourists here anyways. Place is way to over crowded anyways.
 
Hey, I like tourists. Especially the good looking females in bikinis.

Now what I want in FL is a law that says, Criminals are fair game and a bounty will be paid for killing previously convicted felons in commission of a crime, about $250,000 half of the savings realized over a 10 year sentence, plus court costs. And another law saying felons and their families cannot sue an honest citizen under ANY circumstances.

But I'm an optimmist. But this is FL, a strange place where women can afford expensive convertables, but still wear hand-me-downs from their little brothers.

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Who has high hopes. :D
 
Aren't these the same people who were spewing the same rhetoric and mistaken presumptions when CCW laws were being passed in the first place?
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Now you know very well that we gun owners have been itching to kill someone for more that 20 years -- and the only reason we haven't done it is to embarass those people who predicted horrible consequences. We're cheating, that's what we're doing.

We should all be charged with "Failure to conform to liberal stereotype." :D
 
well, we do need tourists, they help "keep Florida Green". Nice thing about our state though, is even tourists can pack here. I would think they would be happy about the new law.
Fact is though, Florida has been fairly easy on citizens that capped bad guys doing bad things. This new approach corrects the silly idea that an honest person should have to run from an attack. It's pretty much a non issue, and the type of people that would not come down because of this law, are people we are most likely better off without.
 
Warning that Florida streets have the potential to morph into the O.K. Corral, gun-control advocates will launch an international campaign to alert travelers about a new state law that allows people to use deadly force in self-defense.
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After you've cried, "Wolf! Wolf!" 79,283 times, the world begins to ignore you.
 
Do the people that say we need/like tourists enjoy spending huge amounts of time in there car going no where during the winter months? I guess if you love your car enough you may like them, personally I believe Florida is overcrowded enough as it is without having people flock here 6 months out of the year. I am not sure how many people can be squeezed into Florida but the developers here are determined to find out.
 
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