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Self Defense?
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04-17-2012, 07:32 AM
Lux Interior wrote: I guess "the gun went off while I was cleaning it" was too far-fetched. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/16/world/...index.html Beats "Twinkies."
04-17-2012, 10:18 AM
The current concern with conceal and carry laws and similar is a showy symbol more (like a peacock feather) than its a functional law.
the benefits of these laws are typically spoken of in ideals rather than practical application. in this manner i don't think any NRA types (or mainsteam republicans at this point) care if any real work changes occur. after all, we're finally "free" $tevie wrote:
04-18-2012, 04:42 AM
$tevie wrote: I invite good jokes about the "show me" state. On a more serious level, I suspect that the majority of voters don't care all that much one way or the other about gun control laws, except to the effect that there ought to be some reasonable level of regulation. They aren't involved enough to vote against an elected official who caves to NRA pressure. Meanwhile, there is the ten percent (or twenty percent, or whatever) of voters who are obsessed with losing their virility or guns or second amendment rights, or whatever they think of it as being, and that is enough to turn a primary election or defeat an incumbent. That's why politicians in red and purple states are acting so weirdly on these issues -- they get driven by the nutters in their own legislatures, and they don't want to be politically targeted, so they try to keep their heads down and hope that the other house of the legislature buries the worst bills in committee.
04-18-2012, 01:05 PM
The bloody hand of the NRA can be seen here again. Florida's Republicans last year, 2011, enacted an absolute prohibition on local municipalities making ordinances or regulations relating to firearms, ammunition, or components thereof.
The intent of Florida's new gun law is to declare all local ordinances and regulations null and void which have been enacted by any jurisdictions other than the State of Florida and the federal government. Any local official who attempts to enforce an illegal local regulation or local ordinance faces a $5,000 fine that must be paid by the local official personally. In fact, no local funds can be used to defend the action except that a public defender or appointed counsel can be provided to an indigent person accused of this crime. Furthermore, the local official also faces being removed from office by the Governor of the State of Florida. |
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