Tourists Beware! Florida Residents are Armed and Dangerous!

well you word it differently it does sound worse. say's here they can "fight force with force" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/26/national/main691124.shtml btw florida isnt the only state with this law..i guess time will tell .should make next season of "cop's" a lil wilder.

 

man ........whats this world coming too. imagine if everywhere had that attitude .......thats really freaky .

 

ok....crossed off my places to visit wish list.....

Living in the UK its hard to imagine what its like living in a country that allows its people to carry firearms....let alone have immunity from prosecution for using it at will...

How can such a law be policeable?

 

is this leading into ANARCHY........in the usa ?

 

No...

 

man so gullable,, thats not what the law says at all,, the law was written an intended to protect the elderly and disabled from home invasions etc..

all the law says is that if you feel your life is threatened you can use deadly force..


this is no diffrent than what happens 15 times a day in america,, someone breaks in your house with a knife or bat or something and you shoot them you wont be charged with murder,,

people get off of being charged every day all over the united states whithout that kinda law bein on the books..

in my opinion its just like the law in kennasaw georgia requireing residents to own a gun whithin the city limits..

its just symbolic is all...

 

but whats Florida's stance on concealed carry? If you cant carry a gun in the street, then this law obviously wont apply to that.

 

well, there's bunches in florida carrying anyway, and fighting against the peckerheads hijacking tourists for their money. they're easy pickens. it's an epidemic. but i don't see how it's any different now than it was before the law, except now it's legal.

 

Yeah, basically everytime this stuff happens anyway (like somebody shooting a person who is robbing their house or trying to steal their car) they might get charged but usually they get off anyway, this law just basically cuts that whole part out, people in florida aren't anymore angry or violent than anyone else in the rest of the country and responsibly gun owners will not shoot people just because they feel a little threatened, i'm sure they willl use judgement, and the unresponsible ones are the people who are using them for bad things in the first place.

 

I live in Florida and I dont think Im going to be shooting anyone anytime soon, laws or no laws.

 

The right to carry arms is thankfully illegal in the UK... and i dont hold with the argument that its ok because the bad guys have guns so the good guys need guns for protection...

we do have gun crime in the UK...but thankfully its not the problem here that it is in the US...100% due to the fact that we have to explore other forms of protection.... the idea that somehow carrying a lethal weapon will make our streets safer is beyond my comprehension...

We all need to protect ourselves in our homes... i agree with that... better awareness and security would go a long way to solve these issues.... the thought that anyone feeling threatened can take another persons life is just ridiculous... how arrogant are we becomming if we think we are capable of being judge jury and executioner in just the few seconds it would take to pull a trigger...

 

its not just a gun law,, its a personall protection law,, the right to,stab,pummel with a baseball bat,brick,or chain,as well as shoot anyone that threatens your life whithout fear of prosecution...

its simply a edict on whats been a givin rule here in the united states for years...

 

Even if it's just an argument? Bullshit.

 

well nonlethal force is a 3rd degree felony, so one could easliy come to a conclusion that deadly force would have a stiffer penalty? but i think maybe you stumbled onto a loop hole, go for it!

 

tell that to the guy at the 7-11 who has a gun put in his face on a regular basis, he no longer has to be pistol whipped or shot. he can defend himself , tell that to the lady who is being car-jacked with her toddler's strapped in their carseat's, she can defend her family instead of leaving them to the mercy of a thug. this law let's people protect themselves, who otherwise would be victim's.

 

same thing's were said after the C.C.W. law passed, over 360,000 in florida have them now for the last 2 plus years, where's all the big shoot-out's?

 

turists be aware that if you are threatend with bodily harm a armed individual can come to your aid and still go through the legal prosseces to determin wether that aid was justified!!!!!!!! nothing has changed!!!!