The problem is that some don’t bother to ask and they just shoot you for the gansta fun of it.

The end result was one employee slightly injured and one bad guy with two gunshot wounds in the arm and under arrest.

Serious victim selection failure. I am guessing he did not play lots of Cowboys & Indians as a kid. Only in Florida.

An auxiliary Florida Highway Patrol trooper shot and killed her neighbor Monday night after he came into her home armed with a bow and arrow and asked for money.

The St Petersburg Time/TampaBay.com “Idiotorial” of today bitterly complains that citizens from other states can obtain a Florida CCW way too easy. They go through the usual balderdash of why this is a bad idea and mentions without details two cases: One where a Philadelphia man shot an 18 year old car thief (apparently having a FL CCW is enough for the Philadelphia Enquirer and Philadelphia Cops to pass sentence without trial since they already declared the shooter a murderer. PS: The link is mine. The St. Pete Times did not dignified itself to provide more info.) and that somebody else was denied of a Pennsylvania permit because of “of his association with drug trafficking” which means you don’t need to be guilty of something, you just have to be suspected of not being  on “good character.” And I thought Jim Crow laws were dead.

But what really sent me in a fit of laughter was the parsimonious closing paragraph of the “Idotorial.”

Isn’t this the very essence of states’ rights? Each state should be free to determine and enforce for itself who should or shouldn’t be able to carry a concealed weapon — without the interference and bureaucratic indifference of another state. Concealed weapons permits should not be among Florida’s exports.

Well shit Bubba, it is not like Florida put a gun on Pennsylvania’s head and said “You accept our Weapons Licenses or we kill you!” Pennsylvania is free to deny reciprocity with Florida any time it wishes.

And I leave you with this quote:

Editor:  A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.  ~Elbert Hubbard

You read something and realize that maybe the idea of drug testing legislators in a random basis should be thought seriously.

On an article about Manatee County rushing to repeal illegal anti gun ordinances, we find this quote from Florida Senator Mike Bennet (R):

Florida Senate President Pro Tempore Mike Bennett said he had not realized when the legislation was under consideration that it would be so far-reaching.

“I don’t think most of us realized it would put the cities and counties in the box they’re in,” he said Monday. “I believe in Home Rule: If the City of Bradenton wants to write legislation saying you can’t carry a gun inside the bar, they should be able to do that.”

OK Mike, here is the thing:

1- The “Home Rule” does not give the right to a city to pass ordinances that go against the Constitution.

2- The law has been in the books for 24 years and ignored without you legislative monkeys caring one bit about its violation. What was done was to give the CITIZENS (those who you are supposed to be working for) a way to bring local politicians to order.

3- Did I mention that the law has been in the books for 24 years? Florida Law does not allow the carrying of a weapon in a bar.

Now, can you please direct yourself to the nearest drug testing center? Thank You.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters are frowning on freeloaders.

Meanwhile, the protesters are starting to notice folks taking advantage of the demonstration by grabbing some of the free food and clothes that have been made available in Zuccotti Park.
“The tourists take all the food, and the hipsters take all the clothes,” said one demonstrator.

Well, they have the same right as you do or don’t they? So why the double standard?

Now you guys now how we feel about your demands and overall stupidity.