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Florida Legislature Votes Down Measure to Ban Assault Rifles
thedailybeast.com ^ | February 20th, 2018

Posted on 02/20/2018 9:46:08 PM PST by Helicondelta

The Florida State House on Tuesday voted down a proposed motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, “effectively killing the measure for this session”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; nra; secondamendment
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To: Bob434; pepsionice
Nope- it’s Zero percent- people aren’t allowed to own assault rifles- TRUE assault rifles- No murders were committed with TRUE assault rifles as far as i know

Only three (3) illegal uses of legally registered NFA Title 2 firearms (machineguns, destructive devices, suppressors, SBS, SBR, and AOW) that we know of...
....and all three murders were done by LAW ENFORCEMENT with their Form 4'd personal toys (not form 10 department guns).

A Miami PD detective used his own Mac 380 SMG to murder a CI who was about to blow the whistle on his corruption in the late 70s/early 80s.
A OK sheriff deputy used his AR-18 to kill a burglar who kept breaking into his garage in the 80s. Neighbor saw him crouching in an ambush on his property.
A MN SWAT officer used his suppressed MP5 to kill his wife, her cop lover, and the internal affairs officer before killing himself in the mid-late 90s.

There, is of course, the most famous one, Christopher Dorner who used suppressors and short barrel rifles (form 4 LEO exempt) in his rampage in 2013.

Want to keep NFA Title 2 guns from murdering people? Don't give them to cops.

41 posted on 02/21/2018 4:48:47 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progressives, or Democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!)
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To: Helicondelta

And they voted it down by two to one while the children were there protesting.


42 posted on 02/21/2018 5:06:54 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: Helicondelta

You could at the very least add a disclaimer for the lie in the headline...

The Florida legislature did not consider any legislation involving “assault rifles”.


43 posted on 02/21/2018 5:08:37 AM PST by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: Helicondelta

Florida 2016 electoral map by County. Lots of Red..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida,_2016#/media/File:Florida_Presidential_Election_Results_2016.svg


44 posted on 02/21/2018 5:11:56 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Helicondelta

Vote it down and send the brats home.


45 posted on 02/21/2018 5:14:16 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Helicondelta

One of the Stoneman Douglas students called the 73 who voted sanely murderers...who did they killed? I can’t wait to get to the gun show this weekend...


46 posted on 02/21/2018 5:23:55 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Helicondelta

Now that they have these kids there they should have a teach-in which leftists love and they should teach these students what the second Amendment is and why we need it. This would never happen of course.


47 posted on 02/21/2018 5:36:24 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Helicondelta

The left is going to get kids to do what they got them to do in the 1960s and 1970s. To riot on the college campuses and now on the high school campuses. This is what they do. Get kids to riot and they make their speeches. This is their goal. To unarm America so that they can take over. With us armed, they cannot do this. So, now, teach the 15, 16 and 17 year olds to riot. Cause them to burn down their schools. Teach them young. They have been doing this for decades in the class rooms. Now, teach them to riot.


48 posted on 02/21/2018 6:07:42 AM PST by RetiredArmy (We are in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! Do U know Him?)
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To: RetiredArmy

These “youths” need some cleaning to their heads, via old school wood shampoos, administered by local lawmen.


49 posted on 02/21/2018 6:13:24 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Helicondelta

They should’ve started smaller and voted on banning assault rifles in schools.


50 posted on 02/21/2018 6:46:57 AM PST by moovova
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To: goldstategop

And they still don’t have a clue what an assault rifle is. And they keep pretending that a .22, a 30.06, etc won’t kill. If they weren’t so willfully ignorant in public, I’d have maybe a smidgen of respect for these people. As it is, they are liars.


51 posted on 02/21/2018 6:58:50 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: The Fop
Not to mention the din from skeeters buzzin' around and the water dripping from the 150% humidity. Add in some male gators lookin' for girl friends and it's a wonder you can hear anything. 😹🇺🇸✌️⛈🐊🌴🏖
52 posted on 02/21/2018 7:02:34 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Wallace T.

“Wood Shampoo.”

LOL! Haven’t heard THAT one in a long time.


53 posted on 02/21/2018 7:02:34 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: RandallFlagg
A New York police official in the late 19th Century said there was more law at the end of a policeman's night stick than in a decision of the Supreme Court. It's a shame police officers no longer make use of this effective weapon. It worked well on union thugs and 1960s era hippie keftists, both groups of whom were in far better physical shape than today's snowflake SJWs.
54 posted on 02/21/2018 7:09:15 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: goldstategop

these kids walked out and marched whilst laughing and waving at the camera. They are not too upset it seems, but look at this for their 5 mins of fame , and a day from school, and I see some teachers with them

Using these deaths for political gain is sicking, and shows how far liberals have become with their hatred


55 posted on 02/21/2018 7:49:57 AM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: pepsionice

In 2014, according to the FBI, all rifles (not just scary-looking “assault” rifles) accounted for just 2 percent of all murders, and just 3 percent of all firearms murders.

There were only 248 victims of murder by all rifles, less than those murdered by:

shotguns (262)
knives or cutting instruments (1,567)
blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.) (425)
personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.) (687)

In other words in 2014 (and every other year for which I have seen data), well over twice as many people were murdered by unarmed assailants as were murdered with any rifle, whether that was an AR-15, a Ruger 10/22, an antique muzzleloader, or any other type of rifle.


56 posted on 02/21/2018 8:12:23 AM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: DCBryan1

All of the data I have seen suggests that concealed carry permit holders offend at far lower rates than law enforcement officers, let alone the general public.

I don’t know of any studies on the subject, but I would be willing to bet that the crime rate among non-LEO legal owners of legal owners of NFA Title 2 firearms is probably within the margin of error of zero.


57 posted on 02/21/2018 9:07:56 AM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: SoFloFreeper
Was anything mentioned about Chicago?

So far for February 2018 in the Second City...

February to Date

Shot & Killed: 24

Shot & Wounded: 76

Total Shot: 100

Total Homicides: 29

58 posted on 02/21/2018 9:40:29 AM PST by skimbell
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To: Wallace T.; RandallFlagg

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A New York police official in the late 19th Century said there was more law at the end of a policeman’s night stick than in a decision of the Supreme Court. It’s a shame police officers no longer make use of this effective weapon. It worked well on union thugs and 1960s era hippie keftists, both groups of whom were in far better physical shape than today’s snowflake SJWs.
>

I believe the issue has reversed now. They are part of the ‘union thug’ think. No longer constable\’peace officers’ but enforcers of the State: law-enforcement officers. 2-of-3 sides in the ‘negotiations’ are GOVT\entities (taxpayer vs. public union vs. elected...w/ all appropriate kick-backs and election-time ‘help’)


59 posted on 02/21/2018 9:53:48 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Helicondelta; All

WISH the (R)N(C) here in FL had immediately called for the increase of the age to 21 for:

- Driving
- Voting
- Abortion
- Freedom of Speech (written or otherwise)

They could have used this as the perfect example of the non-adult mind: emotional, unreasonable, willfully ignorant and *MORE* than willing to take YOUR life, Liberty, property and Rights by use of govt.

Or, better yet, pass a bill that the above will have the SAME constraints that are placed upon the 2nd:

“You are under arrest for saying/posting XYZ w/in the 3day ‘cool-down’ period...” or “for not using a flier\printing press to express your opinions, as was common in the days of the Constitution.”

Oh, I’d LOVE to see the lawyers/ACLU/judges noodle through that. “But guns kill!” “So does speeding/reckless driving....So does abortion” “But, that’s a Right” “No. The 2nd *IS*” *deer in headlights*


60 posted on 02/21/2018 10:03:20 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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