Nearly 1 million Floridians have concealed weapons permits TALLAHASSEE — Florida will soon have 1 million people with valid permits to carry a concealed weapon. Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam announced today that the state would cross the milestone sometime next week. Putnam said the state has the largest number of concealed weapon permit holders in the nation. As of today, there are 997,066 permits statewide. http://www2.tbo.com/news/news/2012/dec/12/8/nearly-1-million-floridians-have-concealed-weapons-ar-580834/
The latest numbers I can find for Texas is just less than 500,000 out of 25 million. That surprises me.
Texas Democratic Party Leader: NRA Members “Need To Be Wiped Off The Face Of The Earth”… How progressive. Via Examiner: On Sunday, we reported that liberals on Twitter called for the murder of NRA members. One of those making the calls was identified Sunday as John Cobarruvias, a blogger, Democratic precinct chairman in the Houston area and a member of the Texas Democratic Executive Committee. “Can we now shoot the #NRA and everyone who defends them?” he tweeted. After reading about the tweets on another site, Yvonne Larsen noticed a familiar name. “Among the selection of tweets advocating for the murder of NRA President Keene and all NRA members was a name familiar to me; probably familiar to many readers of Houston’s Liberal blog sites,” she wrote at Big Jolly Politics. Larsen said she “pasted a screen shot from the Freedom’s Outpost story in case NASA employee and Democrat Precinct 699 Chair John Cobarruvias of the Houstonblog Bay Area Houston tries to delete his tweet. Larsen said she “pasted a screen shot from the Freedom’s Outpost story in case NASA employee and Democrat Precinct 699 Chair John Cobarruvias of the Houstonblog Bay Area Houston tries to delete his tweet.” Ironically, after calling for the deaths of NRA members and their defenders, Cobarruvias called the NRA domestic terrorists. “Let’s face it. The #NRA is nothing but a domestic terrorist organization. They have done NOTHING to stop this violence except make excuses,” he added. On Saturday, he posted a comment on his Facebook page asking NRA members to “un-friend” him and issued a disturbing message. “They need to [be] wiped off the face of the earth,” he wrote, speaking of the NRA and those who support owning guns.
NY Dem Gov. Andrew Cuomo On Possible New Gun Legislation: “Confiscation” And “Mandatory Sales” Both Options… Scary stuff. Via NY Times: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Thursday that he had started discussions with leaders of the State Legislature about new gun control measures, and that he planned to propose a package of gun legislation in his State of the State address on Jan. 9. “There’s a big difference of opinion on these issues,” Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, said in an interview on an Albany radio station. [...] In the interview, Mr. Cuomo did not offer specifics about the measures he might propose, but, while discussing assault weapons, he said: “Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option — keep your gun but permit it.”
At what rate? Better yet, at what cost? People should be more wary of those wrapping themselves in the blood of innocents to push an agenda.
There will be more than the blood spilled from innocents if the government attempts to physically take guns away. This is bad Ju, Ju for everyone..
The NRA Plan To Guard Schools Is So Stupid That 1/3rd Of All Public Schools Already Use It… Not to mention it has overwhelming public support. BTW- There is a permanent, armed police presence at many schools here in California, especially at high schools. Some obvious examples are the Chaffey School District, where Corey and I used to work and the Pomona School District where Dave Francis works. The Long Beach Police have had a police station (along with a state probation office) at Long Beach Poly HS for decades. Via National Review: New York Times: [. . .] Nationwide, at least 23,000 schools — about one-third of all public schools — already had armed security on staff as of the most recent data, for the 2009-10 school year, and a number of states and districts that do not use them have begun discussing the idea in recent days. . .
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Al Sharpton: After Gun Control Comes Knife Control… <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nssQETWpf10?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0"></iframe> Then comes slingshot control followed by a crackdown on spitballs. Via Radio Equalizer: REV AL SHARPTON (28 Dec 2012): In any civilized society you do not see massacres continue to happen, from Tucson to Aurora to Columbine to Virginia Tech to where we are now in Newtown to Chicago and you keep the same laws when clearly they’re not working. ROSCOE IN MARYLAND: What happens when the criminal goes to knives Al? REV AL SHARPTON: Then you deal with knives. ROSCOE IN MARYLAND: Oh I see. REV AL SHARPTON: The same thing as if you have a head cold and the same thing you do if you have a head cold and the cold is gone and you have a headache. Then you take headache medicine. The job of society is to deal with whatever problem confronts it.
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