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HAB911

(8,916 posts)
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 09:27 AM Feb 2017

Allowing guns everywhere won't make Floridians safer

It was Mark Twain who famously — and accurately — ruminated that "no man's life or property are safe when the legislature is in session." You might want to add additional at-risk elements such as common sense, brain function, scruples, independence, work ethics, intellectual curiosity and public service.

The Florida Legislature is preparing to begin its 2017 session next month, which is really another way of saying we're in for 60 days of pure Tallahassee stupid.

It is axiomatic that another legislative feedbag means more bills will be filed to make it easier for Floridians to shoot each other with more abandon and less accountability than the officiating of a World Wrestling Entertainment eye-gouge-fest.

It has fallen to Sen. Greg Steube, R-Yes Ms. Hammner, Whatever You Want Ms. Hammer, to serve as the 2017 stooge for the National Rifle Association in Tallahassee, which is an old Seminole word for "a blank check of lobbyists."

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/ruth-allowing-guns-everywhere-wont-make-floridians-safer/2312243

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Allowing guns everywhere won't make Floridians safer (Original Post) HAB911 Feb 2017 OP
Pro life and pro gun - GOP hypocrisy in a nutshell! Initech Feb 2017 #1
Pure Tallahassee stupid. mitch96 Feb 2017 #2

Initech

(100,105 posts)
1. Pro life and pro gun - GOP hypocrisy in a nutshell!
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 12:04 PM
Feb 2017

They don't want people to have abortions but guns everywhere is OK by their standards.

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