Obama and Florida: Concealed Weapon Carriers May Decide the Vote
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On Obama and Florida: it’s the concealed weapon carriers who may decide the vote in the Sunshine state in the upcoming Presidential election this November.
According to the St. Petersburg Times, the number of Floridians getting concealed weapon permits has soared 50% in the last three years. The numbers are astounding: in 2004, there were 347,350 active permits. In 2008, the number jumped to 520,000, or one out of every 35 citizens of Florida.
Voters may not be too happy to learn that the Democratic candidate for President, Barack Obama, has stated that he is against citizens having the right to carry concealed weapons:
“When I (Mendell) queried him about the vote, he said, “I didn’t find that [vote] surprising. I am consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry. This was a narrow exception in an exceptional circumstance where a retired police officer might find himself vulnerable as a consequence of the work he has previously done–and had been trained extensively in the proper use of firearms.”"
The above quotation is from Chicago reporter and author, David Mendell, who wrote the book, “Obama, From Promise to Power”. Mendell followed Obama’s career from Obama’s stint as a state Senator of Illinois.
A new updated version of the Florida concealed weapons laws allows citizens the right to take their guns to work, but keep them locked in their cars. In 2004, the law allowed citizens the right to defend themselves while away from home.
People getting permits cited “worry” about “crime” and “disaster” and that the concealed weapon permit afforded them protection.
While Senator Obama is adamant about abolishing concealed weapon permits for private citizens, he fails to address the very real reasons why people are getting permits in Florida in record numbers. In fact, there’s seems to be a very real disconnect between Obama and “Average Joe” Americans. Senator Obama, who’s been called an “elitist”, claimed the people of Pennsylvania “clinged to their guns, religion… or people who aren’t like them”.
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And it’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
–Times Online
If Obama believes that small town Americans in the Midwest who own guns are “bitter” and “religious” what does he believe about the citizens of Florida who carry concealed weapon permits?
People who get a concealed weapon permit take the responsibility of owning a gun very seriously. They spend time as well as money and get the proper training before they are certified to carry a concealed weapon. They’re very serious about wanting some means of protection for themselves and for their family. Senator Obama’s call for abolishing people’s right to carry a concealed weapon, without putting other measures into place, strips citizens of their right to protect themselves.
Voters in Florida may factor in Obama’s concealed weapons bias when making their decision on whom to cast their vote for this November, especially if Obama’s “Change” means stripping the people of Florida of the right to protect themselves.
By LBG
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Hello everyone ,
There are so many issues to discuss about concealed carry that I don’t know where to start.
I WANT STRESS …I WAS BORN IN ILLINOIS AND HAVE BEEN A NRA GUN OWNER IN ILLINOIS FOR 20 YEARS.
I am looking forward to the day when I have complete reciprocity in Illinois. My grandfather hated their godamn
foid card and so did I. Its a shopping list for all those loser AFSCME FOP types who used to sell pencils for
Mayor Daley and his son. Look .. Did you know that Mayor Daley Jr. has his own bodyguard that carries unlicensed ?
He doesn’t even have an FOID card. Did you know that city council woman Dorothy Tillman alias “the hat” always
wears “hers”?
During the election that escalated Obama from lowly chicago machine politician to the US Senate,
a terrific second amendment friend was lost. I’m talking about ex US Illinois Senator Peter Fitzgerald.
I am here to tell you folks in Florida and across the country that voting democratic will reenable the
worst rash of gun bans and second amendment oppression that we have all fought so hard for….
IDPA still has clinton ten round mag limits on their ranges and eventually everyone will forget that the
current whitehouse had the wisdom to shove the assault weapon ban up their asses .
I want to take this opportunity to thank all those involved with making concealed carry possible for me .
I also want to urge you not to vote for the Chicago machine….they are the last infestation of psycho antihumanists
left in this country . Send them back to the streets of chicago where they belong. Let them live in their neighborhoods
and suffer their unpopulist cultural marxism.
Complete elimination of all self defense laws is on the way ..and defeating the gun nazis at the polls is the best way
we have to completely eridicate their marxist form of government.
73 Mike Florida ccp holder and damn proud of it
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Paperwork, fees, and background checks to allow people to carry a side-arm? What kind of nonsense is this?
The right of self-defense is a corollary to the right to life; to deny one is to deny the other. The purpose of government is to insure our rights, not to infringe on them.
The fact is that governments should not be involved in permitting the carriage of weapons, either openly or concealed, by anyone.
Our constitution states that the right of the people to keep (possess) and bear (carry) arms shall not be infringed. Marbury v. Madison (1803) decided that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and that any law that contradicts the Constitution is null and void. “The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and the name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void and ineffective for any purpose since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it; an unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed … An unconstitutional law is void.” (16 American Jurisprudence 2d, Sec. 178)
In Murdock v. Pennsylvania (1943) the Supreme Court stated that a constitutionally-protected right may not be licensed, nor a fee charged. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of those protected natural rights.
In Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham, Alabama (1962) the Supreme Court decided that “If the state does convert a liberty into a privilege, the citizen can engage in the right with impunity.” (That means they can’t punish you, folks!)
To paraphrase an oft-quoted movie line, “Permits? We don’ need no steenking permits!”
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