Don't MoveTo Florida

[Pertinacious Tom]

Concealed carry of loaded weapons? Florida Freedom!

It has actually been called "Vermont Carry" for as long as I can remember because that's how long they've had our new policy. I hope we achieve their crime rate, but I suspect gun control laws don't really do a damn thing about crime rates.

Your new name does have a nice ring to it, but I'm a traditionalist. Also, don't want to steal Bernie's limelight.

 

[justsomeguy!]

gun control laws don't really do a damn thing about crime rates.

They kinda do, to the extent that nobody knows who's carrying.
Something about "an armed society is a polite society."

 

[Jules]

They kinda do, to the extent that nobody knows who's carrying.
Something about "an armed society is a polite society."

If guns suddenly disappeared from the planet, then you'd have to settle your differences with fists. I wonder how many tough talking gun owners would be putting up their dukes.

 

[Fat Point Jack]

Concealed carry of loaded weapons? Florida Freedom!

Banning books and firing teachers who teach history? Florida Freedom!

See, Florida really is all about freedom.

Which will kill more people?

Less restrictions on carry guns?

or

8 of 12 death penalty decision by a jury of your peers?

Or will either save anyone?

 

[justsomeguy!]

tough talking gun owners

I never meet these people.
Perhaps we travel in different circles.

 

[LewSipfher]

I never meet these people.
Perhaps we travel in different circles.

You’re not in Floriduh.

 

[Jules]

Which will kill more people?

Less restrictions on carry guns?

or

8 of 12 death penalty decision by a jury of your peers?

Or will either save anyone?

If they are crimes of passion, the former.
As for the latter, Meatball Ron and his Tallahassee Taliban are only trying to kill off anyone who doesn't bow down to King Meatball.

 

[veni vidi vici]

If they are crimes of passion, the former.
As for the latter, Meatball Ron and his Tallahassee Taliban are only trying to kill off anyone who doesn't bow down to King Meatball.

Actually it is the commie subversive media and DNC

 

[Jules]

Actually it is the commie subversive media and DNC

Oh, gosh. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Bump-n-Grind]

They kinda do, to the extent that nobody knows who's carrying.
Something about "an armed society is a polite society."

which is total horseshit. this country is on it's way to becoming Deadwood.... if we're lucky.

 

[justsomeguy!]

which is total horseshit.

Think about it. Let's say you're a common criminal (okay, even an uncommon criminal), looking for a victim.
What would be your priorities?

 

[Fah Kiew Tu]

which is total horseshit. this country is on it's way to becoming Deadwood.... if we're lucky.

Well, the survivors might be more polite. Maybe.

God knows a hell of a lot of entitled twats need a good lesson in manners, though shooting them probably is going a bit far. A Taser, OTOH, would be appropriate.

FKT

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

Don't move to North Florida (or the rural south)

Source:

United States Mortality Rates and Life Expectancy by County, Race, and Ethnicity 2000-2019 | GHDx

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[Tacoma Mud Flats]

Field and Streams' Ed Zern's only cinematic comedic effort:

The three Charlies explain the best car to have for the Florida visiting sportsman. Fast forward to circa 1966 - now bought used, well rusted, broken aircon, ripped seats and well thrashed of course.

...bugs be damned...



"...and if I understood it, I'd explain it to you..."

John D. MacDonald would have approved.

"...The main reason that Ed Zern is not listed up there with S. J. Perelman, Robert Benchley, E. B. White and Peter De Vries is because he wrote for the sporting set at Field & Stream instead of the smart set at The New Yorker..."

Once he sneaked an offhand "book review" of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" into Field and Stream:

Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley's Lover has just been reissued by Grove Press, and this fictional account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is still of considerable interest to outdoorminded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways of controlling vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper. Unfortunately one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savor these sidelights on the management of a Midland shooting estate, and in this reviewer's opinion this book can not take the place of J. R. Miller's Practical Gamekeeping.​

Clearly an Anarchist of his day.

 

[SloopJonB]

Don't move to North Florida (or the rural south)

Source:

United States Mortality Rates and Life Expectancy by County, Race, and Ethnicity 2000-2019 | GHDx

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So you're saying the redder you are the deader you are?

Or the more you are red the sooner you are dead.

 

[LewSipfher]

Don't move to North Florida (or the rural south)

Source:

United States Mortality Rates and Life Expectancy by County, Race, and Ethnicity 2000-2019 | GHDx

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US Health Map

vizhub.healthdata.org

Look at incomes. I’d bet those data will correlate

 

[Steam Flyer]

Look at incomes. I’d bet those data will correlate

Yes and no. Northern Missouri is not a high-income area, for example.

 

[Ed Lada]

So you're saying the redder you are the deader you are?

Or the more you are red the sooner you are dead/

Q.E.D.

 

[Ed Lada]

Look at incomes. I’d bet those data will correlate

Correlation doesn't equal causation.

 

[billy backstay]

Look at incomes. I’d bet those data will correlate

Been covered in PA, but it's not just income......

Americans die younger in states run by conservatives, study finds​

Americans die younger in states run by conservatives, study finds

More liberal policies on environment, gun safety, labor, economic taxes and tobacco taxes associated with lower mortality

www.theguardian.com