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Kang Colby

(1,941 posts)
17. Incorrect.
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 01:54 PM
Jun 2016

Read the statement in bold. It is NOT legal to carry in bars/clubs.

You might be able to carry into a restaurant that serves alcohol per the nonauthoritative interpretation you posted.

Pulse was a club and accordingly, guns are banned from being carried in Florida.

The law reads:

(12)(a)?A license issued under this section does not authorize any person to openly carry a handgun or carry a concealed weapon or firearm into:

12.?Any portion of an establishment licensed to dispense alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, which portion of the establishment is primarily devoted to such purpose;

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0790/0790.html

Was this a concealed-carry permit? Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #1
I don't know. Did he conceal carry? n/t pnwmom Jun 2016 #2
Mateen's father told NBC News, "this has nothing to do with religion." Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #3
So does Chrisitianity, on its radical fringes uponit7771 Jun 2016 #4
I'm not arguing that it doesn't. Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #6
Then why is Islam being extrapolated from the homogenous data? tia uponit7771 Jun 2016 #7
Because ISIS thinks it is at war with the US. ISIS has called for an uptick in killing this month. Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #8
ISIS wasn't the subject of the last line in your post Islam was. uponit7771 Jun 2016 #9
ISIS is a militant wing of Islam, by their own definition. Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #11
So is the militant anti choice murderers in America, seems like a one way application of who hates.. uponit7771 Jun 2016 #12
There is no reason to stick our fingers in our ear and act like its not religious influence Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #14
Islam does not influence people to commit mass murder, I reject that notion hands down uponit7771 Jun 2016 #15
Then you aren't being realistic. Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #16
Again, you're extrapolating a religion in verbiage ... ANY radical sect of any religion or idealolog uponit7771 Jun 2016 #18
And if they based it on the teaching of said religion, then the relgion is influicing them Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #19
no uponit7771 Jun 2016 #20
Good talk. Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #21
False. Kang Colby Jun 2016 #5
That isn't what this says: pnwmom Jun 2016 #10
Incorrect. Kang Colby Jun 2016 #17
Florida is also a death penalty state - that didn't seem to stop this either. tenderfoot Jun 2016 #13
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