Why is he so afraid of the will of the people getting a chance?
Even bills I oppose, I want to at least be heard and voted upon, not mired in tyrannical Banana Republic BS and inflammatory lies and slander used as the excuse...
He's made it clear what he thinks of Gun Owners... We're all just itchin' for an excuse to go "wild west" in his eyes. We can't be allowed to carry a gun in public... Even though we already do... So... Yeah. Something. There was a lot less violence in the "wild west" than there is in his district! It would be a significant improvement!
I was thrilled to see the article cover the BS argument about tourism. The overwhelming majority people visiting from other states are coming from a State that already has Open Carry.
He knows this and flat-out lied about it. Plenty of extra-national tourists come here specifically to see what a free society is like. Gun Tourism is a thing, you know...
It's easy to find "the vocal minority" barking about how they'll boycott Florida... They must be boycotting 45 other states, too... Do you think these loudmouth fools even know that almost every state in the country has open carry already? They don't even notice that they already live in an open carry state... They're just hateful, idiotic, paper tigers. But, there are plenty, including myself, who won't go places where they have to give up a right. I do my best to spend my money up in Georgia, even though I live in Florida, because I can Open Carry there. Only 2 times has something "negative" happened, and it was a fraudulent 911 call from some @sshole liberal trying to get me SWATted for OC. Both times the Cops who responded were professional, and one hung around talking guns for about half an hour so the dirty libtard could watch and see.
People who are not aware of, and do not want, their rights, can't and don't follow through with their idle chatter. People who are aware, and do value their rights, do follow through.
It's been years since I paid fuel tax in Florida, because I buy my fuel in Georgia. What impact has the loud-mouthed anti-gun welfare leach, who lives in an open carry state and doesn't even know it, who doesn't take vacations to Florida anyway and never will... A boycott from people who have no jobs... Wow, so scary.
A boycott from people who actually have money, who are unwilling to give up their rights just to go to a beach... There are plenty of beaches in Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi...
Oh hell, how many times has the TSA missed an accidental/forgotten PT738, LCP, or P-3AT?
Go to The Bahamas, they don't even notice... Have you ever had your bags actually searched on a cruise liner? I've carried guns I forgot I had across borders plenty of times. X-Rays and everything... You think security theater is only bad here in the USA? Have you never seen how lazy they are in The Bahamas? Even if they knew for a fact that you were smuggling a crate full of AKs, most of them probably wouldn't get off the chair to do anything about it...
The major point is that it is not up to one man. But he learned well from his nicknamesake. He's Castro Lite for a reason. He has spoken falsehoods to a complicit press that repeats those falsehoods, while simultaneously forbidding anyone else to have a voice by blocking the vote. Why block the vote? Why prevent any and all discussion? Why tell lies to a complicit media? These things add up to anti-republic, anti-democratic tyranny. Why is he so afraid of a vote? He would stop any election if he could. Why risk getting ousted when you can simply be a dictator?
Why harass Rick Scott about it? It's his place to sign bills, not dissolve the separation of branches, overstep his place, and boss the legislature around. Sure, we want this to pass, but haven't we seen enough of that sort of corruption, especially on the Federal level? Why should we expect/demand the same degree of corruption we see elsewhere. It's become so commonplace we forget that it's corruption to violate that separation of powers...
How can we claim to denounce the flagrant Legislative corruption of Portilla and Gardiner as we request Executive corruption in the same breath? No. I'm not cool with that. Take the High Road, or don't. Don't cherry-pick it at convenience.