Palm Beach Police Chief Nicholas Caristo has written a letter to Senator Bobby Powell asking that the introduce an amendment to the wording of the current law.
“The chief has requested that the legislation just be amended to read that within the 1500 feet, Birdseye view of a school, house of worship, guarded beach, or government building, people exercising their second amendment right not open carry within that distance of those buildings,” said Ogrodnick.
There are lots and lots of schools and churches and synagogues and government buildings in Florida. I expect the places you could openly carry, if Palm Beach Police Chief Nicholas Caristo’s proposal were to become law, would be very rural areas and maybe not even many of them. At the very least you’d have to spend some quality time with a map before exercising your right to bear arms, and even if you do you still run the risk of being arrested by someone whose reading of the map is different from yours.
I’m generally not in favor of new laws. But it sure would be nice to have some restrictions on public “servants” lobbying for new anti-constitutional laws when acting in their official capacity.
If they don’t want to respect the Constitution, they can find another job.
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There are lots and lots of schools and churches and synagogues and government buildings in Florida. I expect the places you could openly carry, if Palm Beach Police Chief Nicholas Caristo’s proposal were to become law, would be very rural areas and maybe not even many of them. At the very least you’d have to spend some quality time with a map before exercising your right to bear arms, and even if you do you still run the risk of being arrested by someone whose reading of the map is different from yours.
Which is precisely the point.
I’m generally not in favor of new laws. But it sure would be nice to have some restrictions on public “servants” lobbying for new anti-constitutional laws when acting in their official capacity.
If they don’t want to respect the Constitution, they can find another job.
PS: Can they lose their pensions too?