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Fort Lauderdale to allow guns – but no other weapons – at parades
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^
| October 4, 2011
| Scott Wyman and Brittany Wallman
Posted on 10/05/2011 7:20:11 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
FORT LAUDERDALE— If you're headed to the St. Patrick's Day parade downtown next spring, leave your knives at home. But it soon will be OK if you pack a gun.
City commissioners began loosening Fort Lauderdale's long-standing ban on weapons at parades and other public events Tuesday. The change comes in response to a new state law that imposes fines on public officials – and could even oust them from office – if they enforce tougher gun laws than those spelled out in state statute.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; fortlauderdale; guns; parades
To: ConservativeStatement
Note to self:
Bring this
Leave this at home:
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posted on
10/05/2011 7:26:17 AM PDT
by
Hodar
( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
To: ConservativeStatement
Hmmm... The Second Amendment addresses "arms". It does not specify "
firearms".
I suppose the argument could be made that it would be easier to get away with stabbing someone in a parade crowd -- as opposed to shooting them. However, I don't think this discrimination will stand up to Constitutional scrutiny...
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posted on
10/05/2011 7:26:36 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: ConservativeStatement
Hmmm... The Second Amendment addresses "arms". It does not specify "
firearms".
I suppose the argument could be made that it would be easier to get away with stabbing someone in a parade crowd -- as opposed to shooting them. However, I don't think this discrimination will stand up to Constitutional scrutiny...
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posted on
10/05/2011 7:26:45 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: ConservativeStatement
LULAC screams RACISM. Obvious disparate impact on Mexicans who are culturally more likely to bring a knife to a gun fight that are anglos.
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posted on
10/05/2011 7:32:01 AM PDT
by
dblshot
(Insanity: electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
To: TXnMA
“arms” is “arms”, meaning what you can carry.
The same non-prohibition should apply to swords as well.
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posted on
10/05/2011 7:32:14 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: ConservativeStatement
One more feel good piece of legislation to curtail the rights of the unwashed.
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posted on
10/05/2011 7:33:01 AM PDT
by
Steamburg
(The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
10/05/2011 7:34:10 AM PDT
by
mkboyce
To: ConservativeStatement
seems like more reporter hissy fits.
this law seems so obscure I bet it was basicly ignored in the first place. If anything it was used by the police to harrass.
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posted on
10/05/2011 7:43:35 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: ConservativeStatement
Well just da*m. I wanted to bring my asagais and knobkerrys to augment my silenced bow an arrows.
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posted on
10/05/2011 8:06:28 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ConservativeStatement
Who is going to tell all the guys wearing kilts in the pipe and drum bands they can’t wear their dirks?
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posted on
10/05/2011 8:43:30 AM PDT
by
gtk
To: mkboyce
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posted on
10/05/2011 10:30:57 AM PDT
by
nerdwithagun
(I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
To: ConservativeStatement
The article does not detail the kinds of knives that are banned. ALL KNIVES? Or only fixed blades?
To: gtk
I noticed the article mentioned that parade but not others.
To: ConservativeStatement
If anyone ever attacks you with a raspberry, just pull the lever and the 16-ton weight will fall on top of him.
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posted on
10/05/2011 1:53:58 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: P.O.E.
What about a pointed stick?
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posted on
10/05/2011 1:57:05 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Hodar
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10/05/2011 2:14:18 PM PDT
by
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posted on
10/05/2011 2:16:14 PM PDT
by
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