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• The debate over Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law has been reignited by the shooting of an unarmed man in a parking lot last month.
The law’s detractors are just as fervent as its supporters.
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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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• Florida’s legislative session kicks off next Tuesday, and gun bills feature prominently. Some lawmakers have filed bills to allow permit holders to carry their guns in more places- like college campuses and airports. Political analysts Dick Batchelor and Wade Vose discuss the slate of gun bills up for discussion in Tallahassee
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• Researchers are now saying Florida’s “stand your ground” law coincided with big increases in the gun murder rate.
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• The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday morning in a case that could make it easier to get immunity under the “Stand Your Ground” law.
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• Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law continues to draw national attention. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing on it Friday in Orlando.
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