NRA defeated - FL lawmakers drop provision in 'open-carry' gun bill allowing firearms on campu

[jpak]

http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20110309/BREAKINGNEWS/110309003/Update--Lawmakers-drop-provision-in--open-carry--gun-bill-allowing-firearms-on-campuses

Lawmakers have removed a provision in a proposed 'open-carry' gun bill that would have allowed firearms on state campuses and private elementary and secondary schools.

State Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, a member of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, pushed successfully this afternoon to remove the provision from the bill.

Check back with Tallahassee.com for more on this story.

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[geckosfeet]

1. Someone proposed open carry on elementary school campuses?

[PavePusher]

2. What would be wrong with that? Would CC be O.K.?

[geckosfeet]

8. I am not sure I would advocate for either, but concealed would be preferable.

I just don't agree with adults parading around in front of kids openly displaying firearms in an educational setting. Especially young children.

[PavePusher]

9. "in an educational setting."

Irony, at it's finest.

[geckosfeet]

16. Firearms training is not in the traditional elementary school curriculum.

[PavePusher]

17. That would not be about "training" per se....

but exposure to the fact that peaceful exercise of a civil right without government forced furtiveness does not mean rivers of blood in the gutters.

Hence educational.

[WatsonT]

12. Obviously for the teachers

not the students.

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3. I see what you did there.

Aren't you one of those conspiracy theorists that's always yammering about the great Republican/NRA collusion to arm each and every American?

State Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, a member of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, pushed successfully this afternoon to remove the provision from the bill.

Unless something must have gone horribly wrong... why are you backing/supportive of the motives of a Republican ?

[jpak]

4. Pro-stupidity republics received enormous push back from Florida U parents, students and faculty

It was a losing proposition and they knew it was wrong.

The good guys won

the NRA lost

yup

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5. But....

you're still agreeing with a decision made by a Republican with regards to the 2nd amendment.

Doesn't that contradict what you've been screaming about all along?

Is the NRA involved in this?

I don't know... it would have been nice if you provided a link that didn't require a sign-up.

But... even if the NRA is/was involved (and it was doomed to failure), you really don't understand the game plan and/or strategy... do you?

[jpak]

14. They retreated, they surrendered, they lost, they did not reload

yup

[RSillsbee]

7. The good guys won

So "republics" are the good guys now?
Interesting

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[rl6214]

20. Now with that provision stripped from the bill

it will be that much easier to pass the concealed carry part.

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[lawodevolution]

6. jpak jumps up and down for joy, meanwhile open carry gets a little closer to reality in Fl

[Glassunion]

10. "More stupid Republican horseshit"

Yup

[GreenStormCloud]

11. PREDICTION: The following will happen:

Campus concealed carry will pass in Texas and possibly some other states.

There will not be the predicted destruction of higher education that the antis claim will happen.

A very few students will use their guns defensively to prevent themselves from violent criminal attacks.

In another state, in a gun-free college there will be another mass shooting.

Then there will be a wave of states enacting college concealed carry.

[WatsonT]

15. Seems likely

[ileus]

18. I'd rather see OC at schools that way the get over irrational fear of firearms.

[rl6214]

19. YUP, with the open carry removed it will make it that much

easier to pass the concealed carry. That rep knew that it would make it easier.

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