Part of the new Florida gun bill is a three day waiting period for all gun sales.

When I lived in Illinois, they had a 24 hour waiting period on long guns and a 72 hour waiting period on handguns.  A number of states have waiting periods, California and Hawaii have the longest at 10 and 14 days, respectively.

Anti gun groups have been pushing hard for waiting periods since Parkland.

Here is some food for thought.

The San Bernardino shooters started taking about committing an attack as far back as 2013.  The guns were purchased in 2011 and 2012.

The Pulse Nightclub shooter started planning his attack almost two years before his act of terrorism.

The Ft. Hood shooter started communicating with radical Islamic leaders months before the attack.  He bought his Five-seveN pistol in July and the shooting was in November.

The Las Vegas shooting was “meticulously planned” over an extended period of time.

The Virgina Tech shooter bought his Glock and Walther weeks before his shooting.

The FBI was warned that the Parkland shooter wanted to be a “profession school shooter” five months before the shooting took place.

The point is, in most, if not every mass shooting that has become a media circus and part of our collective conscience, the shooting was planned weeks, months, even years in advance.

None of these shooters “snapped” and bought a gun to go on a rampage.

Just how much effect will a three day waiting period have on a shooter that is planning an attack for the previous five months?  None at all.

Of all the worthless policies to implement to try and prevent a mass shooting, a waiting period is the one that most creates a false sense of security.

Not just do these politicians not know anything about guns, they don’t know anything about the behaviors of mass shooters either.

I saw this picture and I thought “That ain’t much of a punishment or prank.”

And then I remember that people will not every day carry the simplest of blades with them.  That is why you see some trying to open a box with a pair of blunt scissors and have a miserable time at doing so.

I think I use one of my pocket knives at least once a day. I think I have been carrying a knife almost every day for almost 40 years.

The Gunshine State 1987-2018

Because of a total failure of law enforcement and government services, 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were murdered.  The after effect was to strip the civil liberties from millions of law abiding Floridians who killed no one and committed no crimes.  All because of a cultural movement that hated innocent gun owners more than than the person who committed the shooting or the government agents that were derelict in their duty.

The Florida legislature should at least be honest and change the state motto to: Some pigs are more equal than others.

I have one of these.

Kevin C. sent me the link to this article.

Governor Scott opposes two of these provisions—permitting school staff to carry weapons in school, and imposing a three-day waiting period on the purchase of long guns—and he has repeatedly said so. In opposing the “armed teachers” provision, he lines up with Democrats in the state who so vehemently object to the idea that they voted against it as a caucus. In objecting to the three-day waiting period, he lines up with conservatives who believe—correctly, in my view—that waiting periods do nothing of consequence to stop crime, and that, in the case of long guns, they cannot even be said to limit suicide. In other words, Scott agrees with both of the objections that made this legislative debate so fractious. He doesn’t like the main concession the Democrats made, and he doesn’t like the main concession the Republicans made. He should veto the bill.

In all likelihood, he will not. The parents of those murdered at the school all want to see something pass, and have told him as much. And, if he wants to run for the Senate, he presumably doesn’t want to see the inevitable “Governor Vetoes Gun Safety Bill!” chyrons accompanied by footage of crying children.

Governor Scott Should Veto the Florida Gun Bill.

No democrat is gonna vote for Governor Scott in his race for Bill Nelson’s senate seat, but he and the GOP seems to be married to the thought that if they are just left enough, they will draw enough democrats to win. Of course going “left enough” (specially in guns) will lose him enough Republicans that he will be applying for a Lobbyist license come January if he wants to remain to any kind of political action.

In the Era of Trump, it is an idiocy to act like Jeb Bush.