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[WedgeX]

Courtesy a source of news.

Say a movie theater in

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Florida

banned its patrons from carrying concealed handguns, but a mass shooter came in anyway and attacked — not unlike what happened in Aurora, Colorado, almost five years ago.

Under an NRA-backed measure proposed this week in the

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Florida

Legislature, victims who had a permit to carry a concealed weapon could sue the theater for damages, because its weapons ban left them disarmed when they might have been able to use their gun to thwart or stop the attack.

The new proposal (SB 610) from Senate Judiciary Chairman Greg Steube — a conservative

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Sarasota

Republican who has proposed a slew of controversial gun rights measures this year — says the “Legislature intends to find a balance” between gun owners’ rights and private property rights.

And Steube’s plan to do that means businesses would be held responsible — and put at risk of being sued — for decisions to ban guns.

It...sure is something.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

usa is fucked

 

[theytookourjobz]

Ok so business owners just need to say that guns are against their religion and then they can't be sued right? No way can guns have more rights than gays and Muslim, right? Right?

 

[tbm24]

So what's the argument? That regardless of a gun ban it's an inevitability that someone will bring one in and go on a spree?

 

[Nester99]

Why did you spoiler the link to your source? Annoying.

 

[Caja 117]

Doesnt that make it easier for a person that wants to committ a massacre to do so?

 

[Trickster]

That's so insane. A balance between the right of gun owners and the private property owners?

How about if I own a piece of property, I get to damn well choose if I want people carrying lethal weapons on it or not?

 

[Dali]

I don't see how this would fly. You don't have to sit down at a restaurant without your gun. You just can't do it at this restaurant. You need your safe space? I hear cracker barrel across the street don't care.

Also fuck you, op, for spoiler tagging a damn hyperlink.

 

[Dusk Soldier]

Germany and Australia already banned guns.

Obviously Florida.

 

[Ravensmash]

So conversely they'd have the opposite rule in in place too, right?

 

[sixteen-bit]

easiest G/A/F ever?

 

[old manatee]

What if they set up stationary turrets?

 

[WedgeX]

Why did you spoiler the link to your source? Annoying.

It's from the Miami Herald. Ruins it up front.

 

[Milchmann]

Is G/A/F Georgia, Alabama, Florida here? Otherwise it's too simple.

 

[sazzy]

damn i guessed australia

 

[hydrophilic attack]

easiest G/A/F ever?

could easily have been arizona georgia or alabama

 

[Breads]

Good job putting business into power morons. Now the gun lobby are putting guns everywhere.

 

[Ivan 3414]

FFF

 

[RageWaffles]

Ok so business owners just need to say that guns are against their religion and then they can't be sued right? No way can guns have more rights than gays and Muslim, right? Right?

whoa there.... religious exemptions can only go so far





is the response I would imagine. ._.

 

[Dryk]

The balance they intend to find is that private property owners have no rights. "Small government".

 

[Clockwork]

Also fuck you, op, for spoiler tagging a damn hyperlink.

I use the mobile site on my phone and that was really obnoxious.


Anyway, I don't really like being told what other people can and cannot do on my own property. This oversteps quite a few boundaries.

 

[Dali]

It's from the Miami Herald. Ruins it kind of up front.

You obviously don't know how this works. You put g/a/f in the thread title. People click on the thread and see the answer. That's it. Regardless you don't hide a hyperlink behind spoiler tags so people click it thinking it's just text but get taken to a random website instead.

 

[akira28]

can't have guns in the club. that's how people usually get shot. by other patrons.

If I had to guess, someone is going to make their political name with this legislation.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

You obviously don't know how this works. You put g/a/f in the thread title. People click on the thread and see the answer. That's it. Regardless you don't hide a hyperlink behind spoiler tags so people click it thinking it's just text but get taken to a random website instead.

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who gives a shit

 

[Chuckie]

It's from the Miami Herald. Ruins it up front.

Not really. The word 'gun' in the title already ruined it up front.

 

[WedgeX]

Not really. The word 'gun' in the title already ruined it up front.

Haha fair enough.

 

[RageWaffles]

Regardless you don't hide a hyperlink behind spoiler tags so people click it thinking it's just text but get taken to a random website instead.

huh. for me, links behind spoiler tags are plainly visible. it just shows up as blue text with a black background. I'd always wondered why people bothered doing it.

like:

Interesting to know.

 

[clockworkinyou]

As a licensed gun owner who is all for stricter regulations all around, i see this as the NRA idiots just want to revert back to the wild west.

 

[Somnid]

If I were a business I'd call that bluff. Anyway if their beloved Trump passes "strongly held belief" regulations pacifists can just refuse them service.

 

[kinoki]

I've been in USA for 5 days total in my life. I saw more guns in those 5 days than I have in my life. And I've never felt as unsafe as I did in the US. Remind me to stay out of the US.

 

[Dali]

huh. for me, links behind spoiler tags are plainly visible. it just shows up as blue text with a black background. I'd always wondered why people bothered doing it.

like:

Interesting to know.

This is how it shows up.

 

[Frankfurter]

Why am I not surprised?

 

[dan2026]

I'd believe fucking anything out of America at this point.

If you told me every child was required by law to go to school with an Uzi I would believe you.

 

[Deleted member 284]

Can a business then just ban a permit owner from entry then? Have a sign up front that due to this bill we do not allow gun permit owners on the premises. Maybe force the legislature to hand over the database of permit owners and refuse entry.

 

[Lucreto]

As a licensed gun owner who is all for stricter regulations all around, i see this as the NRA idiots just want to revert back to the wild west.

Not even the wild west, they had stricker gun laws than they have now.

 

[Dryk]

As a licensed gun owner who is all for stricter regulations all around, i see this as the NRA idiots just want to revert back to the wild west.

The Hollywood version of the Wild West that never actually existed in real life

 

[dluu13]

Ok so business owners just need to say that guns are against their religion and then they can't be sued right? No way can guns have more rights than gays and Muslim, right? Right?

No the new draft of the religious freedom bill only protects those who oppose LGBT rights and women's choice in the name of their religion.

 

[John Kowalski]

I've been in USA for 5 days total in my life. I saw more guns in those 5 days than I have in my life. And I've never felt as unsafe as I did in the US. Remind me to stay out of the US.

I'm not setting foot in the US while guns are around. Much less now that Trump is president, but still. I'm not going anywhere where citizens can carry weapons willy nilly.

 

[dallow_bg]

I've been in USA for 5 days total in my life. I saw more guns in those 5 days than I have in my life. And I've never felt as unsafe as I did in the US. Remind me to stay out of the US.

Did you go to gun shops or conventions?
I've lived here 30+ years (in Texas even) and rarely ever see guns in public.

Saw 0 all of 2016. I get weirded out when I do see someone carrying one.

 

[Snagret]

How many mass shootings in America have been prevented (or interrupted) by vigilante intervention? This idea that we'd all be safer if we could only just shoot criminals ourselves is absolutely insane to me.

 

[SuperBowser]

ahhaha, what a stupid proposal.

...

I would genuinely be afraid of travelling anywhere if I lived in America.

 

[clockworkinyou]

The Hollywood version of the Wild West that never actually existed in real life

Yep.