Florida bill would require anger management courses for bullet buyers

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/06/florida-lawmaker-wants-anger-management-courses-for-ammunition-buyers/
Florida bill would require anger management courses for bullet buyers
By Joshua Rhett Miller
Published March 06, 2013
FoxNews.com

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http://hotair.com/archives/2013/03/09/fl-lawmaker-people-wanting-to-purchase-ammo-should-probably-take-anger-management-classes-first/
FL lawmaker: People wanting to purchase ammo should probably take anger management classes first
posted at 2:01 pm on March 9, 2013
by Erika Johnsen

 

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A Florida legislator wants anyone trying to buy ammunition to complete an anger management program first, in what critics say is the latest example of local lawmakers reaching for constitutionally-dubious solutions to the problem of gun violence.
The bill filed Saturday by state Sen. Audrey Gibson, D-Jacksonville, would require a three-day waiting period for the sale of any firearm and the sale of ammunition to anyone who has not completed anger management courses. The proposal would require ammo buyers to take the anger management courses every 10 years.
“This is not about guns," Gibson said. "This is about ammunition and not only for the safety of the general community, but also for the safety of law enforcement.”
Gibson said she’s concerned with citizens stockpiling ammunition, potentially creating dangerous situations should those individuals ever come in contact with law enforcement agencies or criminals.
“It’s about getting people to think, really, about how much ammunition they need,” Gibson said. “It’s a step, I think, in a safer direction. It’s about getting people to think before they buy.”
"When I first saw it, I thought it had to be a joke."
- Sean Caranna, executive director, Florida Carry
Gibson insisted the bill is not “accusatory” toward gun and ammunition owners, but rather an effort to improve the safety of her community. She recalled the death of a Jacksonville man, Jordan Davis, 17, who was fatally shot during a confrontation with another man in November. Michael David Dunn, 46, of Satellite Beach, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the case.
Gibson first announced her intentions to introduce such legislation last month during a rally for Davis, saying “people are just not as patient as they used to be,” according to the Florida Times-Union.
“We see the rage on the road all the time,” she continued Wednesday. “People are just more impatient, I don’t know what it is.”
Gibson’s bill does not offer a threshold for the amount of ammunition needed to necessitate the need for anger management courses.
“It is unlawful to: A) Sell ammunition to another person who does not present certification that he or she has successfully completed an anger-management program consisting of at least 2 hours of online or face-to-face instruction in anger-management techniques,” the bill reads. “The certification must be renewed every 10 years. B) Purchase or otherwise obtain ammunition by fraud, false pretense, or false representation.”
Those in violation of the bill, if passed, would face a second-degree misdemeanor charge. Anyone found in violation a second time within a year of a prior conviction would face a first-degree misdemeanor charge.
Critics of the bill, however, derided the legislation as “absolutely ridiculous” and suggested that Gibson take a course on the U.S. Constitution.
“When I first saw it, I thought it had to be a joke,” said Sean Caranna, executive director of Florida Carry, a nonprofit group championing the right to bear arms. “They’re trying to say that anyone who owns a gun or shoots a gun or has ammunition for it needs counseling and obviously has some anger problems.”
Caranna said he was disappointed that Gibson wasted her time on the bill instead of focusing on other issues like jobs or the state’s rate of foreclosures, which is the highest in the nation.
“We’ve got a lot of issues that should be the focus of these bill slots with limited filing, but instead we put in something as ridiculous as this,” he said. “I don’t see a planet where this passes. This is an attempt to grab attention – it has to be. And that’s really disappointing.”
Jon Gutmacher, an Orlando attorney and author of “Florida Firearms: Law, Use & Ownership,” told FoxNews.com that the bill would almost certainly be found to be unconstitutional based on prior restraint.
“It has no reasonable relationship to anything,” he said. “There has to be a reasonable basis to believe that a person had a substantial anger problem that could cause public harm.”
Gutmacher said he found the bill to be an “insult” to any gun owner in the Sunshine State.
“It’s absurd on its face,” he continued. “And anyone who proposes that legislation is in my mind unfit for the legislature because it shows a basic problem with their thinking process, aside from their lack of understanding of what the Constitution is all about. That’s the kind of bill that doesn’t even get past committee.”


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[Werewolf]

Yeah right...

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[n2sooners]

Someone should tack IQ tests in order to vote onto his bill.

 

[spamby]

She has every right to suggest any bill she wants. And the voters have every right to vote her out of office. Plus the more she talks the more she sounds like an idiot.

 

[BamaAlum97]

She probably meant that after you may need anger managment after spending the day looking for ammo and realize that all the shelves are empty...

 

[ASP785]

I laughed when I read this story. It amazes me what some politicians come up with. My mind just can't travel to these places.

 

[WessonOil]

I laughed when I read this story. It amazes me what some politicians come up with. My mind just can't travel to these places.

Just have it travel to NYC, where a law almost passed outlawing large soft drinks..and doing a poor job of that even.

 

[ASP785]

Just have it travel to NYC, where a law almost passed outlawing large soft drinks..and doing a poor job of that even.

Well I agree with that law, because clearly something has to be blamed for obesity. It couldn't be peoples personal choices that has anything to do with it.


On a serious note, thankfully that 'law' was stayed by a judge, but come on if that is legal, where does it stop? What's next?

 

[grizzly97]

Yeah right...

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