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To: CurlyDave

Aha. OK, as I understand you to mean, Florida outlaws all guns in a bar, even if carried by properly licensed guards.

OK. Excuse me for asking, but does this not eventually invite disaster upon the bar patrons? It seems very similar to a zoo that mixes carnivores with herbivores in the same pen, sharing space and water holes. I must be missing something. If this is accurate(?), I wonder how mere pieces of paper could ever be misconstrued by lawmakers and voters to protect bar patrons from predators of the human variety. (Sorry not to be up to speed on all this, just wondering.)


63 posted on 06/20/2016 12:05:27 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: SteveH

I seem to recall Florida as having a reputation for being relatively enlightened and forward-thinking in at least some manner after a string of robberies of tourists who by necessity flew in without weapons and then were compelled to advertise their lack of weapon by displaying rental car stickers on their rental cars. This seems like the opposite direction. Offhand, without metal detectors, secure perimeters, armed guards or police, and patdowns (eg such as courts typically have), bar patrons are not safe in Florida. I imagine that I must be missing something...


64 posted on 06/20/2016 12:15:20 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: SteveH
"Aha. OK, as I understand you to mean, Florida outlaws all guns in a bar, even if carried by properly licensed guards."

Not true. In Florida, anyone can carry a firearm in their home or place of business.

81 posted on 06/20/2016 4:35:31 AM PDT by bruoz
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To: SteveH
Aha. OK, as I understand you to mean, Florida outlaws all guns in a bar, even if carried by properly licensed guards....

I don't know if that is the case. What I do know is that concealed weapons permits do not allow carry in bars. This establishes a supposedly "gun-free zone".

...Excuse me for asking, but does this not eventually invite disaster upon the bar patrons?

I think it does.

But your original point was that the financial burden of providing security should fall on the bar. Nonsense. The bar is blameless, it is the state that made the law and the state should bear the entire burden of the consequences of their law.

96 posted on 06/20/2016 6:24:21 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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