Flori-duh Gun Laws... What Could Go Wrong

[NowISeetheLight]

Someone backed into a neighbors driveway and ended up with a gun pointed at their head. The reality of no gun laws and letting everyone lock and load.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/01/florida-man-driveway-incident-handgun/70279472007/

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/palm-coast-man-pointed-gun-at-person-using-his-driveway-thought-it-was-his-neighbor-deputies.amp

[LoisB]

1. What is wrong with people?

[NowISeetheLight]

3. Neighbor

Apparently the idiot thought it was his neighbor (whom he'd had disputes with). Instead it was a 60 year old visitor. It just demonstrates why guns are a problem when you let everyone have one.

[live love laugh]

2. All of a sudden, this is a "thing". Two months ago it was unheard of.

Someone is promoting this behavior. I see one Fox Newz link on the story. Pretty sure they’re part of the recent escalation.

What are they so scared of?

[carpetbagger]

5. It's been a thing for a while, just not in the news.

I've had a few people brandish weapons around me over the years. Videorecording usually gets them to stand down really quickly.

I think they're scared of black people, and everything else is derivative like a kid who has a temper tantrum and forgets why he was crying in the first place.

[live love laugh]

8. Brandishing weapons isn't new but the common theme

of being in a driveway or ringing a doorbell and getting shot or having a weapon pointed is new and recent.

[carpetbagger]

10. Yeah, the doorbell was a real head scratcher.

I mean, it's a button for people to push to notify the inhabitant that there's someone at the door.

But what do I know, an armed society is a polite society, right?

[NotVeryImportant]

14. Who's scared of Black people?

And why?

[live love laugh]

17. MAGAts pretend to be scared so they can commit hate crimes.

[Initech]

16. Fox I'm sure is responsible. But I'd place the blame more on Infowars.

Or TPUSA or some other bullshit far right source.

[gratuitous]

4. What kind of dweeb is going to all the trouble of acquiring a gun

And NOT go looking for a reason to use it? It's all very cool, very legal, according to the law!

[GPV]

11. Exactly! "Give me a gun and give me a reason" type thinking.

[NowISeetheLight]

13. I Have Guns & I'm a Realist

I had CCW permits in AZ and SC when I lived there. I didn’t carry though unless I was going to our hospitals in rough neighborhoods (Phoenix and Columbia). I wasn’t carrying on me but I had a gun in the car. Otherwise, I lived in the suburbs and didn’t carry. It was pretty safe and I stayed observant. Don’t into high crime areas and you reduce the odds of being a victim.

Here in CA I didn’t even apply for one. With a history of PTSD and being hospitalized at the VA multiple times I wouldn’t get approved. I have one 9mm at home (in a safe) but otherwise I took my shotgun and the other guns I inherited to a dealer to sell. In SC I had real concerns about safety as I was semi-rural and officers were always 20 minutes away. Here they are super responsive and I’m in a gated community.

The reality is I have nothing that is worth dying for. It’s insured so take it. While there are certainly sociopath criminals who will shoot you for no reason, most criminals are cowards, it’s why they have guns. Give the losers the stuff and they’ll leave.

[Zipgun]

6. There is a very powerful and litigious NRA activist that has all the GOP

Officials scared witless. They will pass any legislation she wants. It’s really disgusting and she’s been doing it for years

[TexasDem69]

7. Florida's gun laws are pretty consistent

With those of about 40 other states.

[flvegan]

9. "no gun laws" Really?

Stop. Your first and second link (because it's the same story), the guy was arrested and charged (you know, like if there were...I dunno gun laws).

I hope you were fulfilled by the clicks and likes you got though.

[onethatcares]

12. check the T shirt out

I'll wager he'll blame this on President Biden somehow.

[madville]

15. He was arrested under Florida laws

And the new laws that take affect in July wouldn’t even apply in this case since it’s always been legal to carry a gun either openly or concealed on one’s own property (which is allowed by the law in almost every state).