(Florida) Legislature: Lawmakers change school code to allow guns locked in cars

I'm worried that whenever the next FL school shooting happens, this bill will be blamed, and the backlash will push 2nd Amendment causes back even further.

While I appreciate your concern, I do not think it is sufficient enough reason to not proceed with this legislation.

Our opponents will scream and moan no matter what we do, so we might as well do what is right. To do otherwise allows the left to win the war, without having to win any of the battles along the way.

To accept the way the left frames the argument defies logic (and I'm NOT accusing you of this--I'm merely venting). What deranged individual, bent on committing mass murder, worries whether or not its legal to bring the gun onto school grounds in the trunk of his car?

Besides, its a double-edged sword: What if there is another school shooting that is stopped or, better yet, prevented by someone who had a firearm in their car (as happened at least once in the past)? One would think that would advance the 2nd Amendment cause.

As would the thwarting of a terrorist attack by an armed civillian.

Go to your local ER when the "gun and knife" club is meeting (i.e. the local increase in shootings and stabbins on Fri and Sat nights).

Naperville Sportsman's Club (Illinois) meets on Thursday nights (6pm-"10pm") and Sunday afternoons (noon-"6pm") and is open to the public. Although it was closed for a bit over a year recently because some nearby property owner sued to shut it down over bogus environmental concerns, it has been in operation for decades without a single medically-reportable injury.

On which planet do these ER-visit increases occur?

But Sen. Alex Villalobos, R-Miami, said the exemption was in the state's gun law and the issue shouldn't be treated differently in the school code.

I met Alex at the Coconut Grove gun show in Miami not too long ago. Good guy.

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