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• Democratic political analyst Carol Cox and Republican analyst Molly Nardella join Intersection to discuss the issues driving the Democratic gubernatorial campaign, and how GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam is responding to a story about how his agency handles concealed carry permits.
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• Florida’s legislative session is set to extend into the weekend after lawmakers missed the Tuesday deadline to strike a deal on the budget. Political analysts Dick Batchelor and and Chris Carmody join Intersection for a look at what lawmakers agreed on and what’s left out of the budget.
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• In a Gallup poll five days after the Pulse shootings, 63 percent of Americans said they thought that making it harder to buy assault weapons would prevent similar incidents. But in the same poll, 64 percent of respondents said they thought allowing more people to carry concealed weapons would prevent mass shootings. On the face of it, these seem like contradictory opinions, though statistically, some people must have agreed with both. In this year’s legislative session, Florida politicians had similarly paradoxical results on both sides of the aisle. Democratic legislators were unable to pass bills making possession of assault weapons by everyday citizens a felony, while Republican-sponsored bills to allow concealed campus carry, concealed airport carry and open carry also …
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