No actually it isn't. The original question was in the context of gun rights, which Florida Open Carry promotes, and not Perks for Permittees (P4P) which FLorida Carry seems hellbent on increasing. There is a BIG difference, Sport.
I agree with your premise thundar, but Floriduh will never, ever, ever, ever be a gold start OC state. Floriduh is an extreme elitist State. The 'I'm better than you because...' mindset is more prevalent here than anywhere on the planet I have ever been. EVER. By a wide margin.
If there is to be OC here, it will be the P4P sort. It will never happen any other way. The task of attempting OC of any kind in Floriduh is akin to convincing Kim Jong Il that he is not a god, and his subjects deserve guns, too. The general mindest of the average Floridan is very, very anti-rights. The Average Joe Floridian Voter makes Schumer and Feinstein look like Ron Paul. Until that changes, no OC effort will succeed.
FloridaCarry has done many things, except the most important one; Influence the minds of the extreme Statists who live here. Even California has uOC...
The approach that FloridaCarry has taken is one of pragmatism. But they aimed for their goal. That never works in FL. I feel they should still aim high, and then 'settle' for P4P. The Legislative Process is horribly corrupt here. The only hope is to start out presuming you'll have to compromize about 95% of what you want to accomplish. Pad your Bill with a ton of crap you don't mind losing. Sacrifice it all except the one primary thing you really wanted. Try to make it look like a minor detail.
FloridaCarry wants to tiptoe, but use legal weight wherever possible. All this will do is encourage the FSA to lean on Legislators to remove penalties and liability for their bad behavior. They can't swing that legal weight if the laws are neutered... It's a plan to fail in advance. I sometimes wonder if FloridaCarry understands the environment they are in. I'm not tryign to detract from their efforts. I just wish they would stop using the wrong tool for the job. Hammers are not used on screws. They need to re-appraise the environemnt of Floriduh. They're using the wrong tools. A bigger hammer is exactly what we need, the problem is a giant nail. While finesse and engineering solve many problems, that is not the environment of Floriduh. Floriduh is a meta-engine of brute-force abuse of power. Period. Fancy, expensive jeweler's tools are great and all, but they don't work for this problem. My paranoia kicks in as I think it's too difficult to keep getting it so perfectly wrong on purpose. How can you NOT know these things? How can you be up to your eyeballs in it and somehow manage to do precisely the wrong thing every time?
"Stunts" are the only way. Florida is already drastically elitist in the area of Firearms. We need to change that attitude. It can't get worse than it already is. Walking on eggshells and hoping for the best isn't going to work. The enemy holds the high ground. If they take away our Fishing Exception, so be it. We can't use it for anything practical or useful anyway, may as well 'pull a stunt' and see what happens.
We have nothing worthwhile to lose, and everything to gain.
I wish I were there.
I support anyone who is trying, but I'm much more interested in the people who are striking at the root, instead of the people swinging from the branches. There will be backlash no matter what is done. Stir the pot. Take ACTION instead of scheeming cloak-and-dagger plots that won't work.
Woohoo, you're going to 'enforce' 45. Notice how devoid that thread is of an example of someone every being prosecuted or even harassed on the basis of those illigitimate local ordinances? It makes a big splash, but it doesn't do anything...
FloridaCarry is on a high horse of 'our way is the only way' and will alienate other groups until they stop doing that crap. Furthermore, their way is wrong and won't work. They need a few bites of humble pie, come down out of the ivory tower, and join with the rest of us living in reality.
It's flashy and makes a cool thing to put on your resume, but it isn't working. It isn't going to until they recognize the environment they are in and pick up the right tools for the job. You can't smoke a cigarette underwater. Sure, you've got the cigarettes, you've got the lighter, and you know how to use them. But you're underwater! Living and Operating in denial of this fact means it will never work.
This 'stunt' is the first concerted effort I've seen from anyone in Floriduh, besides myself, to pull our heads above the water. It's great that FloridaCarry has the resources that it has. But FloridaCarry isn't approaching the surface where it's resources might become useful. Effort wasted, seemingly intentionally, doesn't impress me. I venture to say I'm not the only one.
