Comments on: Scott, Legislators Pitch Changes In School Safety, Gun Laws

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 01:36:55 +0000

It is time for Gov. Scott to do effective changes to protect our schools.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:44:26 +0000

no new laws needed, just a change in how reports of a potential school shooter are handled, and some kinda (ahem) intestinal fortitude tests for law officers.

By: EMD

EMD — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 16:08:57 +0000

I want to feel free from the government the left wants to impose on everyone. And, no matter what anyone believes about J. Edgar Hoover, I have, through the years watched everything he wrote(and more) in his book, “Masters of Deceit” happen in this country. I have also seen most unaware of the devices used by The Communist Party. I do so much hope that we will begin educating ourselves and our children in this area. Communism might sound good to some, but it never works, due to human nature. The only ones that prosper in that system are the ones who lord it over the majority. I hope that people wake up before it is too late. One of the first things they do is take away firearms from the citizens, so they cannot resist their final “solution.” This country already no longer resembles the country in which I grew up. We were not perfect then, but it was better than now. I also hate so much to see those who have won their freedom, trying to again cause division. I hope people will educate themselves. Every area of our society has been infiltrated. Many have already been brainwashed and re-programmed. Remember, “against all enemies, foreign AND domestic.”

By: concernednanny

concernednanny — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 13:29:52 +0000

The reason you never hear about mass shootings at jails or courthouses is simply because there are armed people there. No one trys to “shoot up” a place that is known to have people there that will shoot back. Arm the teachers that want to be armed and trained. People will not be so quick to attack the most vulnerable in our society if it is known that they have protection and no one knows who it is.

By: Rocky

Rocky — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 04:30:30 +0000

For the sake of our argument folks, there is no accurate count of so called ‘Assault Rifles’. Yes, I know they are NOT ‘assault rifles’, but those trying to figure this all out don’t, so they call them that for the sake of not confusing the idiots we’ve all elected to office. The ATF Form 4473 does not spell out ‘Assault Rifle’, the data entered includes – manufacturer, model number, long-gun or handgun, serial number, and caliber. Furthermore, the ATF is forbidden by law to enter all of this data into a database, it is kept in paper format, so it is impossible for them to search the number of so called ‘assault rifles’ in the US. And, thus, “Best Estimates” are somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 – 15 million of these weapons in the US today.

Since 2012, these so called ‘assault rifles’, have been used in 11 mass shootings. Using low end of the estimate that means 0.00011% of those 10 million weapons were used in mass shootings. If you go high end, that jumps to a staggering 0.000073%, and liberals are doing their absolute best to deny us the right to own one.

I found one website that professed a record of every mass killing the infamous AR 15 ‘assault rifle’ had been used in, in the last 35 years, and guess what… The 11 shootings jumped to a whopping 13.

Total death toll in all 13 shootings… 220 people, in 35 years.

More TEENAGERS died texting while driving in THE LAST THREE WEEKS, than these guns have killed in mass shootings in 35 years. That’s right folks, 11 teenagers die texting and driving EVERY SINGLE DAY in the US, and no one is talking about banning cell phones.

You might ask your elected officals why!

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 02:42:23 +0000

Time to vote out Rick Scott! Sounds like he prefers a police state to a constitutional republic. We have got to rid this country of freedom-hating career politicians!

By: A. Alex

A. Alex — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 02:07:20 +0000

Why not 31,SINGLE, NO TRAFFIC OR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, must be a former BoyScout Eagle, own your own house(not living with a parent),not living on a government check( (this includes SSI,SS, military retirement.
And must show a mininum $1,000,000. Insurance policy before obtaining the weapon. I was living on my own at 19 and age is not the issue here.

By: Bob C.

Bob C. — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:57:21 +0000

Dear Readers and Comment Makers,
The Very LAST thing a “shooter” expects is to be confronted by anyone who is Armed and Returns Fire with the sole intent to STOP the assault.

“A R” as in AR-15 does Not = Assault Rifle
“A R” as in AR-15 does = Armalite (the name of the company making them)

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:36:46 +0000

There is no doubt that before this is over, the minimum age to purchase and possess a gun of any type in Florida, and probably the country, will be 21 year old. I don’t have an issue with this, provided we make 21 years old equitable with adulthood in all areas.

1. 21 to vote in any Federal, State, or Local election.

2. 21 to enter the military. If you can not posses a gun in society you should not be asked to posses one on behalf of the same government to kill on their behalf.

3. 21 to get married. If you are not mature enough to own a gun, you are not mature enough to enter into the contract of marriage.

4. 21 to get an unrestricted drivers license. 16 years old to get a restricted license requiring an adult in the car with an unrestricted license to drive. Daylight hours only.
18 years old they can drive alone during daylight hours and with an adult during other than daylight hours. Vehicles have killed more people than guns every will, probably including during wars.

5. 21 to enter into any legally binding contract.

Why do some people think more laws will make this go away when the same government could not use the tools they already have to keep this last shooting from happening. Is incompetence all of sudden going to end?

These new laws will do nothing to solve gun violence.

What they will do is take rights guaranteed by the 2nd amendment away from law abiding citizens and raise taxes to pay for it, only to let us down the next time it happens.

By: Rocky

Rocky — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 19:52:38 +0000

Let’s see…

- Cruz had been kicked out of 4-5 schools for violent/disruptive behavior.

- The school has a report no criminal activity policy in place, so the superintendent and school are a party to this crime.

- The school already had a school resource officer, he and several other Broward County deputies were found hiding behind their cars, guns drawn, in the parking lot when City Police arrived.

- The Sheriff’s department has reported 39 calls to the Cruz household, 2 calls on Cruz himself, and no arrests. It’s also been reported they received information 2 years ago Cruz may be planning a school shooting, and there is no record of that tip being received, let alone investigated.

- The FBI in Mississippi investigated Cruz’s comments online about shooting up the school, forwarded that to Headquarters in DC where the ball was dropped and it never went to the Miami Field Office.

- Cruz was seeing a psychiatrist who did nothing more than prescribe psychotropic drugs which frequently have side effects that lead to such violence.

- The Family looking after Cruz demanded he buy a gun safe, lock up his guns, and bring them the key, realizing he was displaying dangerous behavior.

And, for some asinine reason my rights of gun ownership are being threatened.

Let’s take everybody’s car away, drunk drivers and teenagers texting kill far more people than AR 15s, which are NOT assault weapons do.