TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers late Thursday voted down a bill to repeal the “stand your ground” law linked to the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin.

The 11-2 vote in the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee likely kills any repeal effort in the Legislature this year. But a separate Senate measure still pending could revise the self-defense law first passed in 2005.

via Lawmakers vote down repeal of ‘stand your ground’ – Orlando Sentinel.

HB 4003 has been killed in Subcommittee. We still have Senate Bill SB116 to deal with and we can’t lower our guard and let them get stupid with it.

In great news, HB 89 – Defense of Life, Home, and Property was given a Favorable by the Criminal Justice Subcommittee with  a 12 to 1 vote. Among other things, this bill eliminates the Display of a Firearm for self-defense as assault with a deadly weapon. It also allows for a warning shot not to be considered a felony.

You noticed, I hope the bold on the last paragraph. In my lay opinion, this bill has so many yummy things for our cause, it will surely give mass heart attacks to the Opposition and send Moms Demand crying into a vat of Ben & Jerry’s Hysterical Hazelnut & Chocolate Chips. Expect HEAVY negative advertising on this one by the Media and the Cultists which mean it will need our even heavier support.

Dear Florida Gun Owners: Once again I must be annoying and remind you to join/renew both Florida Carry and the NRA. It used to be that wherever California went, so did the rest of the country, we have proven otherwise gun-wise. If after the avalanche of negative stories against Stand Your ground that we had the last couple of years, we manage to get HB 89 into law, the rest of the states that do not have something similar (I think only one state has the defensive display but I can’t remember which) will follow. And even those states that had their SYG bill frozen because of the Zimmerman case will be able to bring them back and hopefully approved them into law.

We carry a heavy responsibility on our shoulders. Holy crap! 😀

PS: If you are not from Florida it does not mean that you cannot be a part of Florida Carry. Every little bit helps and as I said, it will benefit your state eventually.

UPDATE: The Miami Herald bemoans.

Somebody’s pics who went to visit Auschwitz.

One pic brought it home………..

We don’t need a new dialog, a national discussion, a third way, a new beginning or common sense anything…we don’t need “reasonable” — we need to hold the damn line against people who would happily load us into boxcars and send us east! We need to say no to the people who destroy our heritage, spit on the Constitution and unleash their thugs.

via The Michael Bane Blog: Metcalf Canned.

Mr. Bane as usual… quite incisive.

They jumped on Dick Metcalf’s “editorial” and they are enjoying it to the hilt.

Brady Campaign:

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

Moms Demand Action

This post will probably be updated…..

After the catastrophic and rather stupid editorial written by Dick Metcalf, Guns and Ammo Magazine has told him to pack his bags and go.

Some will say: “Well shit! That is rather harsh. What about his right to free speech?”  Sparky, we are right now in the equivalent of a Cold War between a powerful enemy and our side: and constitutional platitudes are all nice, warm and fuzzy and to be used in-house only. To use one of the oldest and most visible gun magazines to sport and antique and expired train of thought that might be used by the enemy is just sheer stupidity… no, I don’t think Metcalf was a spy or a sell out, just stupid.

As with everything in our culture, we don’t dictate but teach and convince. We all want supremely trained shooters, we do not mandate it. We don’t take kindly to mandates as the opposition has learned with painful detail. But we are very receptive to suggestions and best practices and those have to include our freedom to keep and bear arms. There are many best practices out there and we love to choose the ones we like. Try to impose one? You are out of luck because we are ornery that way and you really do not know better.

Hat Tip to Days of Our Trailers

I saw this picture in reddit and I initially thought it was a photoshop:

But apparently it is the way they are selling them.

A sad commentary on things to come?

The recent decision in Mackey v. State is being hailed by police and state attorneys, especially those who are anti-gun.

Don’t believe it? Take this gem from the Office of the State Attorney for the 15th Judicial Circuit (Dave Aronberg, NRA F-rated candidate 2008):

“The Court found that the permit is an affirmative defense to be raised by the defendant after his arrest; it is not element of the crime to be disproved by the officer prior to effecting the CCF arrest.” See pages 4 and 5 HERE

That’s right, having a concealed weapon firearm license (CWFL) does not keep you from being arrested, you can explain that to the judge at first appearance, after you spend a night in jail and get a felony arrest record. Mr Aronberg’s office has taken an inch from the Supreme Court and become a ruler. Do not think that other anti-gun state attorneys, sheriffs and police chiefs won’t do the same. This is the same type of discriminatory, unjustified harassment that was recently struck down in a challenge to Mayor Bloomberg’s illegal stop-and-frisk law, in New York City.

via State Attorney Tells Law Enforcement to “Stop and Frisk” Florida Gun Owners . Florida Carry.

Yes, we must trust the good intentions of District Attorneys when it comes to our rights. Their intentions are noble and pure.

Quoting a song:
Don’t trust your soul to no back woods southern lawyer
Cause the judge in the towns got bloodstains on his hand