General Bill by Massullo
Threats: Prohibits threats to use firearm or weapon with specified intent.
Effective Date: October 1, 2020
Last Event: Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 2:25 PM
I sat down and watched the live-streaming of the committee discussion. The original issues I had with the bill being so generic I think have been addressed with an amendment to the amendment.
if the threat is sufficient to cause a well-founded fear in a reasonable person that the threat will be acted upon.
IANAL but that sounds like a very defined language with little room for legal game playing. I do believe it is close to what we already have for Self Defense. Also the penalty was dropped from Second Degree Felony to Third Degree.
Click on the top link to read all the bills and amendments. Easier for me that way.
Now we need to see the Senate version match this one. They are about halfway there and I would love to see the “well-founded” clause inserted.
Florida Gun Rights 2020 – HB 311 – Threats – BAD BILL – ACCEPTABLE
THE ISLAMIC STATE terrorist group claimed responsibility Monday for a knife attack that left multiple people injured in London over the weekend.
The group’s Amaq news agency said the attacker, who was shot and killed by police, was “a fighter of Islamic State, and carried out the attack in response to calls to attack the citizens of coalition countries.”
Law enforcement added that the suspect had recently been released from prison where he was serving a sentence for Islamist-related terrorism offenses.
Police say that Amman stabbed two people on Sunday before he was shot and killed by a “proactive counter-terrorism surveillance operation [that was] following the suspect on foot.” A third person was injured by glass following the discharge of a police gun.
Who has ISIS Connection, Previous Conviction(s), and Under Surveillance?
The man shot dead by police after wounding two people in a stabbing spree on a busy London street had been jailed for promoting violent Islamist material and had encouraged his girlfriend to behead her parents.
He had also once written a list of “goals in life” which included the desire to die as a martyr.
In November 2018, Amman had pleaded guilty to 13 offences of possession of terrorist documents and disseminating terrorist publications and the following month he was sentenced to more than three years in prison. He was released last month having served half the sentence.
Does anybody have Early Release?
When officers examined his computers and phone, they found he had downloaded material about making explosives and carrying out terrorist attacks, court documents show.
“In online chat you tell your girlfriend that you have declared a pledge to Islamic State and that you wish to purge society and carry out acid attacks,” Judge Mark Lucraft said when he sentenced him to prison.
Internet Radicalization anybody?
He also described Yazidi women as slaves and said the Koran made it permissible to rape them. In another message he encouraged his girlfriend to behead her parents.
Does anybody have “That’s not real Islam, it’s a Religion of Peace™”
Amman’s mother told Sky News her son was a “nice, polite boy” who had been radacalized by watching extremists Islamist material online and became more religious while in prison.
This is a tough one. I bet most of you didn’t know that the “he was a good boy” defense was a thing in the UK too?
Anybody have BINGO?
The more of these that happen the more it’s like these terrorists are a stock character from central casting.
I guess British soft-on-crime policies are as effective as New York and California’s soft-on-crime policies as preventing violent recidivism. That is, not at all.
What I’m waiting for is an article in which some shop owner in London is thrown in prison forever for selling to tourists fake bloody T-shirts that say “I visited London and all I got was culturally enriched.” Because you know the police will take that very seriously.
America’s four largest states — California, Texas, Florida and New York — have a lot in common. They are iconic, dynamic and diverse. Each could be formidable countries themselves.
And, yet, they are also very different in their politics and governance. California and New York are dominated by Democrats who have implemented the nation’s highest and sixth-highest marginal income tax rates, respectively, to help finance large social programs and bureaucracies. (New York’s rate rises to second-highest if New York City income tax is included.)
Texas and Florida, meanwhile, have been governed mostly by conservative Republicans for decades; they are among the few states that levy no income tax on workers, while maintaining leaner social programs.
Our big four states provide a good test case for two very different visions: Do higher taxes and bigger government actually deliver better outcomes, particularly in terms of education, poverty alleviation, and infrastructure? Or can simpler governments and lower taxes actually raise the fortunes of their citizens?
Can you guess the outcome?
Of course you can.
Spending two-and-a-half times as much money doesn’t make New York’s students any better off than Florida’s.
Florida and Texas do not have New York’s famous “rubber rooms” where incompetent, violent, and sexually predatory teachers who cannot be allowed in classrooms go to spend their day because it’s almost impossible to fire them.
It seems like dumping huge money into welfare only encourages people to stay on welfare instead of decreasing the poverty rate.
Also, the high cost of living means that welfare, like other money, doesn’t go as far.
I know a little about this one. A good family friend runs a civil engineering firm in Miami. South Florida is a thin strip of livable land packed between an ocean and a swamp. You either have to drain swamp or build next to ocean, both of which are expensive and challenging.
The big picture here across all three metrics is the Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
Big Blue states with big Blue bureaucracies have a lot of overhead. Huge spending on bureaucrats and regulators doesn’t’ mean that the final result is better and it usually means it’s worse.
Big government won’t solve the college education crisis or anything else, because it is inclined to create more bureaucrats to eat up the money than solve problems.
This article is proof that everything the Democrats say they will do if they just get to tax and spend the way they want won’t happen. California and New York show us why it won’t.
I wrote a post in 2018 about Tesla. I said that their engineer and battery technology was the best in the world and reflective of ingenuity and creativity of the best that Silicon Valley has to offer. The rest of the car is a piece of shit that is reflective of the worst of the Silicon Valley mindset of “launch now, patch later” and disinterest in hardware longevity because users will replace it when the newest model comes out in 12-24 months.
Apparently I am not the only engineer who came to that conclusion.
Allegedly, a Ford engineer thought it was wise to criticize Tesla for shoddy build quality and other questionable safety concerns, but then the engineer deleted all of the comments. Why?
Probably because Ford dropped a ton of bricks on him because Elon Musk is a supervillain who loves to sue people.
Good thing for us, the internet saved his post.
Hm. Insert classic my opinions don’t represent that of the company statement here.
TBH I love what Tesla has done for EVs. Simultaneously, their engineering is some of the worst shit I have ever seen in any industry. It’s often horrifying. Their tech and engineering in battery and HV electronics and harnessing outpaces the industry by 5yrs easy, but their logistics and quality is so poor I’m astonished that the things have as few problems as they do. I’ve torn down dozens of vehicles. When we opened our Model 3 when it first came out, it had loose screws dropped randomly in the chassis near sensitive components. The fit and finish of the alignment of panels is ridiculous. Their electronics frequently flaunt safety guidelines and do not meet UL regulations. So that being said, yes their engineering is top notch. They create custom solutions for vehicle programs that other OEMs could only dream due to the fact that they contract manufacture all of their parts rather than hire auto supplier companies to design it for them. A custom vehicle part for an OEM is 3x the cost of what it would be for Tesla, and the quality of the electronics when you build it in-house is far better than what you can get by adapting an industry design.
… In my personal opinion, I don’t think Tesla is as good at building cars, both from a design/user experience perspective and from a manufacturing/logistics/process perspective, as almost all other OEMs. Does that mean they shouldn’t make cars? Hell no. That platform is something that you can ride to the bank, but at the same time I think you can see in how the Mach-E stacks up the to Model Y that it’s not that hard to make a car that has a soulful identity that resonates with customers that has a great powertrain as well. Cars are emotional creatures and that’s something that Tesla could do better IMO.
Never let it be said that I wasn’t a good forensics engineer, and can’t identify the root cause of problems.
I’d love to start a car company as just a coachbuilder, and buy engines and batteries from Tesla.
What I could accomplish dropping their powertrain into a body designed and built by the engineers I poach from Toyota-Mazda and Honda here in Alabama.
The internet is all a buzz about the fact the Michael Bloomberg’s Super Bowl campaign ad focused on gun violence and not Trump.
This is what he spent millions of his own dollars to air:
Her son was just a good boy who loved football and got shot because guns are bad, and if there was more gun control because politicians would stand up to the big, bad gun lobby, her son would still be alive.
The police are dispatched to the scene of a gun homicide This case arises from a gang-related shooting. On September 26, 2013, just before midnight, the police received a dispatch for shots fired in the Lakemont subdivision in Richmond, Texas. When they arrived, they discovered a deceased male, later identified as George Kemp, age 20, lying face down in a pool of blood. He had been shot five times.
At the scene, the police recovered ballistics evidence, discussed more thoroughly below, establishing that two types of handguns had been fired that night: (1) a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol and (2) a revolver of either .38 or .357 caliber. The police investigate and conclude that Coleman was one of the shooters.
The police proceeded to interview several witnesses and received several tips. They determined that two groups of young men, most of them teenagers, had met that night for a fight. On the one hand, there was a group led by B. Dilworth, which included K. Molo, D. Lewis, and Kemp. On the other hand, there was a group led by B. Lacour, which included S. Spence, C. Coleman, and at least three other young men, identified inconsistently throughout the record.
The police then interviewed the members of each group and further determined that, earlier in 2013, Dilworth and Lacour became embroiled in some sort of dispute, which led to Dilworth challenging Lacour to a fight. This, in turn, led to the two groups meeting in the Lakemont subdivision the night of the shooting.
A fight ensued, and, at some point, Lacour yelled for someone in his group to shoot Dilworth. Coleman, armed with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, and another member of Lacour’s group, armed with some sort of revolver, then fired multiple shots, at least some of which hit Kemp, killing him.
So her son was a member of a gang that met up for a fight, which turned into a gang-related shooting.
So we have gang members, some of them underage to legally obtain handguns, shooting each other in a pre-arranged fight, and somehow that’s the NRA’s fault and now you need to lose your gun rights because of it.
None of this is shocking to those of us who know what Bloomberg and the anti-gun crowd are all about. They will always lie to get their way.
But now that Bloomberg is running for President, and against Trump at that, I can’t wait to see if his anti-gun bullshit gets fact-checked Trump style.
