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Florida Gun Bill: What’s in It, and What Isn’t
NY Times ^ | March 8, 2018 | MAGGIE ASTOR

Posted on 03/07/2018 9:51:04 PM PST by Innovative

What the bill does:

• Raise the minimum age.

• Create a waiting period.

• Ban bump stocks.

• Arm school employees.

• Fund school security.

• Expand mental health services and regulations.

What it doesn’t do

• Ban assault weapons

• Suspend AR-15 sales.

• Ban high-capacity magazines.

• Strengthen background checks.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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It isn't as bad as we feared.
1 posted on 03/07/2018 9:51:04 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Raising the age and creating a waiting period are bad, very bad. Trade those for better background checks.


2 posted on 03/07/2018 10:00:43 PM PST by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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To: Innovative

Democrats weren’t as bad as people feared just decades ago.

Now look where we are.

Drip, drip, drip, Socialism...

Drip, drip, drip, Communism...


3 posted on 03/07/2018 10:01:42 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: Innovative

Bumo stocks are out, but how about binary triggers? They seem more useful to me anyway.


4 posted on 03/07/2018 10:01:58 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: Innovative

how on earth is it legitimate to take away 2nd amendment right from 18-21 year olds? It can’t be.

How did people go along with this?


5 posted on 03/07/2018 10:19:54 PM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Innovative

Government answer is always worse than the problem because it never solves the original problem and screws everybody else. I really hate government. I equally hate the defects of society (most of whom are liberals).


6 posted on 03/07/2018 10:28:11 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Innovative

Waiting periods are the dumbest thing. I mean, they’re not even a big deal to me, but it’s just dumbfounding that Democrats thinks making someone wait 72 hours to buy a gun is saving anyone anywhere’s life.


7 posted on 03/07/2018 10:32:00 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Innovative

How does raising the minimum age from 18 to 21 help address school shootings when the last shooter was 17?


8 posted on 03/07/2018 10:33:20 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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The drinking age in the U.S. is already an absurd 21, where it's lower, sometimes significantly so, in other First World countries. Some blue states are now raising the smoking age to 21.

This country treats people like babies for way too long.

9 posted on 03/07/2018 10:34:06 PM PST by Trump20162020
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10 posted on 03/07/2018 10:34:54 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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so the Governor is running for the Senate huh??..with that age restriction, he can kiss the pan handle bye bye....dumb ass.


11 posted on 03/07/2018 11:02:19 PM PST by basalt
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To: Innovative

Much of it is meaningless posturing.


12 posted on 03/07/2018 11:14:22 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Mount Athos

Don’t be surprised if it is fought in the courts.


13 posted on 03/07/2018 11:14:49 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Trump20162020

Frankly, I think the age should be raised, along with the voting age!


14 posted on 03/07/2018 11:15:24 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: basalt

Yea, like 18 olds were really going to vote GOP.


15 posted on 03/07/2018 11:16:09 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Innovative

[[– Give law enforcement more authority to seize weapons and ammunition from those deemed mentally unfit or otherwise a threat;]]

Deemed unfit by whom? Courts? Police? Neighbors?

Also of note was this wording: “Or otherwise a threat”? As determined by who? ex wives? Jilted lovers? people that hate you? courts? Who will be judging just who is and who isn’t a supposed ‘threat’?


16 posted on 03/07/2018 11:34:33 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Innovative

most interesting.


17 posted on 03/08/2018 12:16:23 AM PST by Ciexyz (I have one issue and it's my economic well-being.)
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To: Mount Athos

<>How did people go along with this?<>

They submit to passion rather than reason.


18 posted on 03/08/2018 12:30:32 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Innovative

And no more guns in “gun free zones”!!


19 posted on 03/08/2018 12:56:04 AM PST by albie
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To: Innovative
It isn't as bad as we feared.

It's still bad. ANY new gun control is bad.

20 posted on 03/08/2018 1:30:46 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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