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From USA Today:

City that went viral for banning teens from trick-or-treating clarified its law. Good!

Last Halloween, one Virginia city went viral for banning anyone 13 years and older from trick-or-treating.

No, it wasn’t a story on The Onion. It was real.

The city of Chesapeake drew national scrutiny – and social media uproar – for its decades-old ordinance that could fine or jail teens caught in costume with a sack full of candy.

It got so much attention, in fact, the city quickly conducted a review of the ordinance and made changes, the city’s director of public communications Health Covey told USA TODAY.

The ordinance now enacts a maximum trick-or-treating age of 14 years old and does not allow for possible jail time.

Teens in the city could still face a Class 4 misdemeanor and a fine under the law. But Covey assures the public that police have never actually fined or jailed a teen for trick-or-treating and the law is in place only to prevent issues like teens stealing and smashing pumpkins.

“The ordinance was, and is, intended to provide police with the authority to take action to keep order and protect public safety,” Covey said, noting that the law was originally made in 1970 in response to “incidents of mischief” on Halloween night.

“Chesapeake Police officers do not spend Halloween night checking the ages of those out enjoying trick-or-treating in a safe manner,” Covey added.

Let me make this point perfectly clear:

Fuck the city government of Chesapeake, Virginia.  They can say that police have never jailed a teenager for trick-or-treating, but the law is the law and that gives the police the ability to do so.  The power has been established, it is only because of the beneficence of the police that they are not tackling teenagers and putting them in handcuffs in squad cars over a bag full of willfully-given candy.

Yes, you read that right, previously the law allowed for jail time for a 13-year-old to go door to door and ask for candy on Halloween.

Who in the actual fuck thought that was even remotely reasonable for a city government to do.

There’s a wide gap in parent’s opinions on what that right age is to stop trick-or-treating, according to a 2016 non-scientific poll of 2,000 people by Today. When asked, “How old is too old to trick-or-treat?” 73 percent of people said between 12 and 17. But those five years between early and late teens mark a huge difference in adolescent development.

Unless you are like me, the eldest sibling, who was tasked with taking younger siblings trick-or-treating.  Then you earn the right to ask for some God damned candy.

Families should have the freedom to decide when the fun-loving era of trick-or-treating is over, not city laws.

The only ordinance a city should pass regarding Halloween is a ban on giving out raisins and other shitty candy.

Miguel is very much opposed to mob violence.  For the most part, I’ll agree with him.

However, if I found myself in the situation where my 13-year-old Thanksgiving in jail because he got some fun-size Snickers from the neighbors then I think it is perfectly acceptable to get a bunch of parents together to march on City Hall and dip my City Counsel in boiling roofing tar.

The spirit of our Revolutionary ancestors demands it.

This was the infamous CNN Town Hall (AKA the biggest “Hate The NRA” TV rally ever!) in which the Sheriff Scott Israel was preening like a peacock and telling everybody how well his deputies had performed his impeccable plans but, alas, things did not go his way. Evil NRA! (spit)

Never forget that by this time, Israel already knew of the failures of Scot Peterson and the other deputies who did not go in. I think that also by this time, Peterson had already put in his retirement papers and had them approved for a quick exit as measure of PR control.

Again, Scott Israel knew of the catastrophic performance of his deputies when he took the stage and chose to fill the air with his self- righteous bullshit and Anti NRA, Pro Gun Control propaganda.

Th truth came out after Coral Spring Officers (who did go into the building after the shooter) hears Scott’s BS, got furious and dropped several dimes initiating the avalanche the covered the department in shame.

If the truth would have been out, there would not have been a CNN Town Hall or the Bloomberg -financed Parkland Kids movement and the eventual Gun Control Laws that we got sacked with because the long line of BSO & School Board failures to control Nikki Cruz and stop them before he killed.

Do expect him to run for the Sheriff post again next year. The Broward  Democratic Machine owes him that and he is not shy about collecting.

Now it goes Wednesday for the full Senate floor vote.

This guy is the lawyer representing Israel in front of the Florida Senate committee.  I missed his name, sorry.

I almost lost it when he said repeatedly that BSO deputies had the best Active Shooter trainer in Florida and possibly the US. And that ALL 1,500 had at least trained twice in the 3 years prior to the Parkland Massacre and there were records and stuff.   That the Command And Control structure of BSO was perfect and it was just one solitary deputy who failed. Hell, he even said that when the Coral Springs cops showed up, BSO deputies went with them. You may remember that while Scott was prancing in the CNN “Hate The NRA”  Townhall, he already knew about the fuck up that was Scot Peterson and his retirement but kept it secret. It was Coral Springs officer who pissed off at seeing Israel portray itself as a hero, let the cat out of the bag and revealed the total fuck up oof BSO including the other 4 deputies that came before CSPD but did not go in or followed after them.

The lawyer and the Democrats present wish that everybody ignore the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting, but since they can’t erase memories, they try to mention it as little and as dismissive as possible. That shooting was also a mess (Which the lawyer blamed on the FBI, DHS, and I think he added the FAA too) which showed BSO was not only caught with the pants down but they were given a bad tattoo in the ass. Without Fort Lauderdale Airport, Parkland becomes a stand-alone event and not a glaring indicator BSO did not do a damned thing to get sharp about Active Shooters.

Holy shit… This is messed up. I swear I do not have the lack of spine and stand up in front of people to parlay that much bullshit with a straight face.

I am seriously considering getting a vertical pole for next year. I have seen a couple of telescopic kits that look interesting and affordable.  I am going to need something I can bring down fast and easy in case of bad storms and hurricanes.

SIGraybeard made a comment on the post Florida: SB 586 – CWL to sell guns privately (UBC Exemption?) that made me think of something.

It could also be the camel’s nose in the tent. Right now, your gun isn’t really that different from your chain saw or lawnmower in that you can sell it without getting the state involved. It’s your property. Yeah, you’re not allowed to sell it to a prohibited person and are required to ask, but that’s it, right? In my limited experience, asking to see your CWL to show you’re not prohibited is pretty common.
This gets the state involved. If it’s law that you’re required to check their permit, then how do you prove you did? You’re required to get a copy of their CWL, but then what? Do you keep it for life or do they mandate a form that you fill out and send to your Sheriff or to the state?

So what happens if you sell more than one weapon over the years? You need to keep those records, right? Both of the CWL and the transaction itself as mandate.  So what about 790.335 – Prohibition of registration of firearms; electronic records.?

(2) PROHIBITIONS.—No state governmental agency or local government, special district, or other political subdivision or official, agent, or employee of such state or other governmental entity or any other person, public or private, shall knowingly and willfully keep or cause to be kept any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or any list, record, or registry of the owners of those firearms.

Same for keeping any records of people with CWL a it is possible runaround of keeping a registry of firearms.  That is a Third Degree Felony with a  penalty of 5 years in prison and $,5000 with the obvious Prohibited Person tag attached to it.

Is this going to be another “Oops! We need to fix this mistake by removing the prohibition of registry of firearms and firearm owns in Florida.” ?

I might be paranoid, but the Opposition is not that stupid and they are bound to have learned from previous mistakes.