Any one seen the way the news is depicting the new Florida law

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Ozzieman

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The law that was passed this week allowing people to protect them selves and there home.
Some of the reports stated that Florida will turn into the wild old west.
Is that so bad, how many child molesters do you think they registered and allowed to walk the street back in the 1800's?
Wasn’t that what boot hill was for.
 
Even during the wild west the worst towns probably had fewer murders with guns than gun control paradises like Chicago, Detroit, DC, LA and New York today.

Heck fewer Americans die from hostile small arms fire in Iraq than DC or Detroit.
 
remember ccw

when florida was one of the first states to pass a ccw law..the press and the brady bunch howled that it would be "old west mayhem" shootings in the streets were predicted, doom and destruction! What happened was a drop in violent crime rate..virtually no crime from the licensed CCW folks...rather than point this out or praise the virtues of the new law, the press just shut up. Now, they are doing the same thing with this new law and if crime rate drops, etc. they'll shut up again, but will probably NEVER see them admit they were wrong and the law is a positive thing. I was born in Florida but have not lived there in a long while, but still I like to see my old home state leading the way on some of this stuff.
 
We need to bring back the 1920s where everyone and their grandfathers were carrying guns. Gangs adopted a strict code of conduct where innocent civilians weren't really in any danger anytime of the day. It was gangs on gangs, and gangs on cops :D
 
Its about time.

The old law, the so called duty to retreat doctrine was popular in the post civil war period so when the Klan came to black folks houses to 'talk things over' they had less risk of getting shot at the door. If by chance some poor slob shot one of them on the front porch the guy could then be legally lynched without too much hassle.
 
Will, yeah except for all the innocents that the Dillinger gang shot. :eek:

The media knows this: if you have no argument, go straight to hysteria!
 
The wild west/blood in the streets analogy is the best that the anti-gun crowd can come up with, and it comes up every time firearms laws are changed in favor of the law abiding.

We all know it's never happened. So do the anti-gunners. It's their attempt to use hysteria and a poor understanding of history to scare people into thinking their way.

I personally think it's a very good thing that they're still using this line of "reasoning."

Why?

Because we can now point back to what, nearly 50 MAJOR state and federal changes of firearms laws in favor of law-abiding gun owners, and not a single one has resulted in what they've predicted.

Virtually ALL of the statistics in this country favor the law-abiding gun owner.

It's very easy to use that to portray these people as mindless, hysterical chicken littles. I've used that tactic with great effect here at my office on two occasions.
 
Someone did a survey of Deadwood, SD during the time Hickock was there, and a similarly sized town in Mass. during that time where it was illegal to have firearms.
The murder rate in the Mass town was almost 3 times higher than Deadwood.

I'd personally rather have the Old West style, everywhere.
 
Oh, it's all the usual with too many believing they intuitively know all about guns, constitutional rights, natural rights, etc. It just makes the case for having gun orientation in schools. At least then more opinions will be worth reading and there might be less basis for ignorant hysteria. It would just be nice if a person would actually know something before pronouncing judgment. It seems to be more important to express an opinion than to know what you're talking about.
 
I heard an ad on NPR today. That law will be the subject of the next Talk Of The Nation, on Monday.

Y'all be civil now, and don't come off like yahoos.
 
"Why didn't everyone stay in New York where it was safe?"

Because it wasn't safe.

Between the disease and the gangs and the pollution, cities in general were not nice places to live in the 1800s.
 
Heard a bit of Matt Drudge's show on the radio the other night and he was whining on about how it would be open season for people to 'blow someone away' because they felt like it. If someone came up and 'got in your face' you could 'pump them full of lead' and the law was behind you.

It was some of the most ignorant anti-gun ranting I've heard...and from someone who professes to a be a CCW supporter.

- Gabe
 
I've seen it on several TV "news" programs, & it's always portrayed as something that will make the jobs of the police more difficult (a-la Aaron Brown) or something that will allow people to get away with murder (a-la Soledad O'Brien). Suddenly I can't recall exactly why CNN is America's Most Trusted News Source...

What got my goat about the American Morning report was that the first video clip they showed was of a woman shooting a competition pistol in an indoor range ... what does a race gun have to do with a FL deadly force law? I figure they wanted to show a clip of somebody pouring the lead downrange to get your attention.

Aaron Brown interviewed the father of a kid who was shot in the back by a FL homeowner - evidently the kid was ringing doorbells & running off. Of course, that scenario was presented as the inevitable result of the legislation.

Why can't they interview someone who was sent to jail for responding to force with force on the street in order to protect himself? Why don't they get the perspective of someone who has been carjacked? Why don't they interview a rape victim?
 
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