Posted on 04/29/2014 10:13:24 AM PDT by marktwain
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014, SB-296 by Senator Jeff Brandes will be heard on the Senate Floor. The Senate needs to substitute the House bill, HB-209 and pass it without amendments.
SB-296 Mandatory Evacuation is the Senate version of HB-209 that has been under constant attack by the Florida Sheriffs Association and continues to be under attack in the Senate.
The bill was under attack in Senate Community Affairs Committee and Senator Darren Soto (D-Kissimmee) succeeded in passing an amendment for the Florida Sheriffs Association to strip out essential language.
SB-296 Firearms/Mandatory Evacuations is a bill to allow law-abiding citizens to take their firearms with them when they are in the act of evacuating while complying with a mandatory evacuation order under a declared state of emergency. This bill will keep law-abiding citizens from being arrested and having their firearms confiscated for taking their firearms with them when they evacuate.
The Florida Sheriffs Association, while proclaiming their support for the Second Amendment, continues to actively OPPOSE this legislation and your right to bear arms. They have continued to spread MISINFORMATION about SB-296 by Brandes and HB-209 by Fitzenhagen relating to Mandatory Evacuations under a declared State of Emergency.
The Sheriffs claim that, "The law already permits transporting securely encased firearms in motor vehicles, and it allows those with an appropriate permit to carry concealed firearms,"is not accurate.
Under current law, once a State of Emergency has been declared by a local official, it is a violation of law for any citizen to take a firearm out of his/her the home or off his/her property.
Under s. 870.044 Automatic emergency measures, once a State of Emergency has been declared by a local official the automatic restrictions apply. The existing law says...the following acts shall be prohibited: "(3) The intentional possession in a public place of a firearm by any person, except a duly authorized law enforcement official or person in military service acting in the official performance of her or his duty."
In other words, once the State of Emergency is declared, you can't take your guns anywhere because sidewalks, streets, roads and highways are public places. You must leave your guns behind in your home or dwelling, for looters to steal or hurricanes to destroy and evacuate your family with no means to protect yourself and your family.
The House bill, HB-209 Mandatory Evacuation is intact and contains the essential language, so the Senate needs to take up the House bill and pass it and send it to the Governor.
THIS IS CRITICAL!!!! PLEASE, YOU MUST ACT NOW
Please e-mail these Senate members IMMEDIATELY and ask them to SUPPORT and Pass HB-209 with NO AMENDMENTS
IN THE SUBJECT LINE PUT: TAKE UP & PASS HB-209 With NO AMENDMENTS
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I NEED YOUR HELP!! PLEASE E-MAIL SENATE MEMBERS IMMEDIATELY
IF YOU NEED REMINDING OF THE ANTI-SECOND AMENDMENT ACTIONS of the Florida Sheriffs, watch the Florida Sheriffs Association tell a previous Committee that it is their opinion that you only have a "right" to own firearms and not a "right" to bear firearms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qogTYo4mPuo
One of those privileging Union pipe dreams robbing the rights of cops after they are done and retired or injured - no longer privileged nor with rights as Detroit Police realizes.
It is a scam targetting cops and citizens both.
LEO’s are no longer the friend of the law abiding conservative….
None of their “emergencies” are exigent enough to require removal of my self-defense tools from my possession.
It just might be better to leave the law the way it is. If you are armed and you KNOW that law enforcement intends to disarm you, you are in no doubt about the threat to your life.
If the bill passes, you can be sure that there will be law enforcement who will violate it anyway.
The existence of community wide emergencies does not trigger an exception to the Second Amendment; it is part of the reason that the Amendment exists at all.
Does New Orleans and Katrina sound familiar?
What part of “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” do they not understand. It is EXACTLY these types of situations where people need firearms the most.
Where I go, so do my assets.
Here is a hint:
My FIREARMS will keep my firearms from being confiscated...
and as such, they become instruments of big gov liberals, whether they mean to or not.
bkmk
Why have a “mandatory evacuation” law in the first place?
And big government "conservatives". Lets not kid ourselves that all statists are on the left.
What's needed is a law that makes clear that those who would disarm law-abiding citizens should be recognized as robbers and treated as such. Such a law would make everyone safer, including those who might otherwise be inclined to ignore a statute which merely affirms people's right to keep and bear arms, since it would make clear to the latter people the costs of lawlessness.
While forcing us to evacuate. I live in an X flood zone, meaning we're 50+ feet above sea level and not subject to evacuations during hurricanes, but law enforcement will go door-to-door to urge evacuations if not outright rip us from our homes.
I intend to bunker down and ride out the storm for anything under a CAT3. CAT4+ means we're going north and inland, but I'm taking a majority of my weapons with me and have plans to secure the rest.
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“A free people ought to be armed.”
(President George Washington, Jan 14 1790, Boston Independent Chronicle.)
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
(William Pitt,Nov. 18, 1783)
“Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” Captain John Parker, Apr. 19, 1775
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