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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
As worded - that means that Fl becomes the wild west where MIGHT makes RIGHT and to FEAR the quick-tempered individual with the FASTEST DRAW.
.........What a beautiful FUTURE this PORTENDS !
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History would indicate otherwise.
In Minnesota, it has been "open carry" since the inception of permits to carry. Some carried openly. I never did; the only person who needed to know I was carrying was me. Others were not as circumspect: I recall rallies at the State Capitol where people rode in the backs of pickups in a motorcade ringing the capital building and grounds, brandishing AR-15s for all to see, and open carry at 2nd Amendment rallies was just how it was done. But it was never "wild west"--even though that was the precise same rhetoric that the alarmists employed back in 2003 when permit-to-carry went into effect up there.
The bad guys don't care. They'll carry wherever and whenever; they're outside the law anyway. But people who are exercising a freedom just don't seem to do so irresponsibly, in Minnesota or, I'm pretty sure, in Florida either. Respect for law, among the law-abiding, goes deeper than that.