Sunday, January 16, 2011

The wild southeast

Florida agents please take note. Yesterday's St. Petersburg Times reports that, in the aftermath of Tucson's shooting rampage, lawmakers in Florida are ready to make their stand on guns clearer.

The solons of the Sunshine State want more people to have the right to carry firearms in the open and fewer government restrictions on gun ownership. Lawmakers have filed three separate bills that seek to restrict local governments from regulating firearms, stop doctors from even asking patients about them and grant licensed gun owners the right to wear firearms outside their clothing - including on college campuses.

Now get this. The bills were all drafted before last week's shooting in Arizona, and before a drunken Florida State University student in Tallahassee accidentally killed his girlfriend's twin sister with an AK-47 on campus.

Both tragedies loom over the legislation, but if history is a guide, that won't impede any of the bills. Almost every year, a gun rights measure passes Florida's Legislature.

Walt has visions of "raisins" -- little old people with permatans and wrinkles so deep that seeds are sprouting down there -- strolling along Worth Avenue sporting the latest in Gucci pearl-handled revolvers. In Miami Beach they'll have Uzis, of course. Better watch your mouth...and your back...in Florida, boychik.

Thanks to Agent 6 for sending this along.

See also: "Five reasons why gun control has been disarmed", by Sonia Verma, from the Globe and Mail.

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