It’s back. It wouldn’t be a new year in the Florida Legislature without more guns in more places, including college campuses, making a return engagement. It’s as predictable as Rick Scott answering any media question with a reference to jobs.
Courtesy, as it were, of Sen. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota, the senate bill could also open up airport terminals, elementary and secondary schools and government meetings to concealed weapons. And in a state with 1.7 million concealed weapons permits, that’s quite the arms-expansion scenario.
So, here come those NRA Second Amendment perspectives along with the rationale that more good guys with more guns can only help when horrifics happen. Countering that: those who note the militia context of the Founding Fathers’ reasoning and what they surely could not have anticipated nearly two and a half centuries later. In short, in order for good guys to weigh in on rare, but high-profile mass shootings, they have to always be packing because you, well, never know. And the law of unintended consequences, of course, will never be repealed.
Business as usual shouldn’t be this frightful.