The media has discovered the impending Two Million License Armageddon.
They do not like it much.
Although the overall violent crime rate nationally has been on a downward trend since the 1990s, Florida has been the site of at least seven mass shootings in the past three years.
Nearly 2 million Floridians now have concealed weapons permits, tops in nation
And that has to do what exactly with concealed carry? Sure as hell Nikki Cruz did not have a CWP.
What struck me as interesting were the comments I saw in Facebook. I was expecting the usual flood of “ZOMG! We are gonna die!” and although present, a large majority were in favor and congratulatory of the incoming goalpost. In Twitter there were few replies but almost all favorable.
Contrary to the billions in News spent to say otherwise, Floridians like guns, like the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. We were told also that Floridians hate Stand Your Ground and study after study, poll after poll the results have also said we like our SYG law.
And yet, our State Gun Rights organizations have failed to capitalize on that sentiment. The lies and cover ups that came out the Parkland shooting are slowly oozing out and they are not helping our political enemies. Maybe next session we will be able to revert the laws passed on the paroxysm of “do something!” and bring some real sense into what needs to be done to reduce school crime.
We will end the legislative session in three more weeks and hopefully the avalanche of Gun Control bills will remain in desk drawer hell.
How many of the mass shooters had Florida CWP’s?
Parkland? No
Pulse? No
Madden Tournament? No
Ft. Lauderdale Airport? No
So what is the link between nearly 2 million CWP’s and mass shootings?
None of those CWP holders could carry in the gun free zones where the shootings happened. That’s it.
There is ONE case in Hialeah I recall of MASS KILLING by CWP. I try not to (but fail sometimes) to use Mass Shooting only as assholes like VPC will include you shooting an attacking gang even if nobody is wounded.
Is Florida has been the site of at least seven mass shootings in the past three years. a true statement?
The statistics I’ve seen about mass shootings, in general, are played about as accurately as the ones about school shootings. They’ll use differing definitions, including people shot in different locations on the same day to get over the four victims line. Sometimes they don’t even respect the definition of four shootings.
They moved the goalposts on Mass Shootings, If there ws a lot of shooting with people around, it is a mass shooting.
So basically every gun range….