Leave your guns at home

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I'd rather have open carry allowed and concealed carry banned, but we have just the opposite here in Florida.

And it's the Chamber of Commerce Republicans that want it that way.

They are afraid that it would hurt the tourist industry if the tourists ever found out how many of the locals are packing heat down here.

And they are probably right about that.

Y'know Tom...I think at this point I have something of a handle on where you're coming from with this issue. Thing is for me...concealed, open or whatever, the whole concept of people feeling the need to wander around with firearms...well it's just nuts.

Particularly when one reminds oneself that for every successful personal defense employing the use of a firearm, there are 43 wrongful firearm deaths in this country. And that the majority of those wrongful deaths are not random or targeted gang related or mass shootings...they are shootings done by somebody the victim knows.

PS - the Chamber of Commerce is a conservative republican political tool and should be outed as such at every opportunity. Anything any Chamber of Commerce might accomplish that is of some marginal benefit to the community is outweighed by their blatant political partisanship.