To clarify, the concealed carry permit is issued to a person and it allows that person to carry a concealed firearm. It has nothing to do with a specific weapon. Neither Florida nor the Federal Government maintain a register of firearm ownership.

The only Scary part is for the ******* that he or she is going to steal from me or harm my family!! By the way I have carried the last 10 years.

Guess there will be a lot of folks from those 2d amendment hating northern states that will be moving back home??? (Wishful thinking?)

Geez. What have we here, this morning?

All I did was tell a little story from the 1970s. And now those cops (who are still carrying, and living in a retirement community in the South) are being called dirt-bags. Even had chapter and verse Fed law looked up to quote at me….wow

It was the 1970s. It was a little story. But, hey, it looks like it even turned out to have a point……

Ya know — like now — in this weird world of 2023 — hosting a big party could mean assuming that anybody and everybody could be armed…..

But, we all know that nobody ever drinks too much.

And nobody ever over-reacts on the subject of guns.

I don’t care if responsible people carry……

What I do care about is the potential for angry guys to take something totally out of context and react in a hair-trigger way.

I was not going to engage in this one. But I just had to defend my little story. (sigh) This is a microcosm of what is happening to us……The art of conversation can no longer be taken for granted. We now often have to approach even in-person discussions like walking on eggs — or like a minefield. Too many people are too easy to set off.

Boomer

I really need to stop looking at these threads.

Yikes! What channel are you seeing this scary stuff? Maybe you meant constitutional carry with no permit versus the first step, which is a gun permit that has all the requirements one would ever need to give you that warm and cozy?

As a former LEO, whenever I approached a vehicle for even a minor infraction, I always had my hand on my gun. At night, I had it un-hosted and low on my side so the citizen couldn’t see it. Lost several friends who were murdered or wounded by lack of caution. I’m 100% in favor of gun control by using both hands in a stressful encounter.

Apparently, you did not read the entire thread before you posted.

Florida is a really scary place when you add in to the equation, the termite infestation plague, lightning strikes burning down houses, golf cart wrecks, and food poisoning at Culvers .


YIKES!

Looking forward to the open carry law passage discussion.

The basic question is how should law abiding people be able to protect themselves in their home , going to work, shopping, etc. My assumption is that some of us do not follow the rules and the law abiding citizen is at an increase risk do to that.

Forgot dog poop.

Apples and oranges. Driving a car is a privilege.

The right to keep and bear arms is a constitutionally-guaranteed right.

Criminals never cared.
 

When in comes to possession and carrying a gun, the criminals never cared about the law. Laws restrict the law-abiding only. Criminals don't have a waiting period because they either steal a weapon or buy one on the black market. I have never understood that some people think that more freedom for law-abiding citizens results in more danger for the public. Actually, it results in more safety for law-abiding people because the criminals are much more afraid of confronting an armed person. That's a good thing.

We don't live in "Florida". We live in a place called "The Villages, Florida".

It is a lazy analysis to take a large diverse piece of land with invented borders and try to prove such a point as this. The Villages is quite safe. Jacksonville? Miami Gardens? Not so much. Peoria, IL? Lots of gun violence. Naperville, IL? Not so much.

Gun violence has much more to do with the people in the community and their respect for the law and law enforcement than anything else.

You are much more likely to be killed or injured by a licensed inattentive or drunk driver than you are an unlicensed law abiding citizen legally carrying a concealed weapon. Maybe that's what you should be worried about?