Florida Senate OK’s ‘warning shot’ bill

[RugersGR8]

This sounds like the perfect thing to buttress up the Stand Your Ground law.


http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/04/03/4037215/senate-oks-warning-shot-bill.html
Legislature 2014
Florida Senate OK’s ‘warning shot’ bill
A so-called ‘warning shot’ bill that is heavily backed by the NRA and other gun groups now awaits Gov. Rick Scott’s signature.
By Michael Van Sickler
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau

 

[Fyrtwuck]

This could get interesting.

 

[ignerntbend]

Also allows brandishing at the armed individual's discretion. I don't have a record so I can shake my pistol in your face if I see fit. Ah Florida, you'll be the death of our gun rights at the rate you're going.

 

[piston10]

Zimmerman will love this!!

 

[ignerntbend]

Florida is about to become the world's number one destination for homicide tourists. It's a growth industry. I'm thinking about going down there and starting a guide service.

 

[dennishoddy]

Its sad the lady got the sentence she did. It wasn't deserved.

 

[AKguy1985]

Its sad the lady got the sentence she did. It wasn't deserved.

agreed.

 

[Werewolf]

I find myself unusually opposed to this.

Warning shot? Come on. I'm no 4 rules NAZI but a warning shot. If the bullet don't go into the guy you pull the gun on where's it gonna go? Really where?

I'm reminded of the young boy killed a while back when a shot was fired at a snake in a tree by a police officer and it hit the boy when it came down a long ways away. How many times will some FL knucklehead who feels mildly threatened by another FL knucklehead pull his/her gun and use his/her booger hook to warn him/her away? But Judge I was firing a warning shot he/she says. How was I know the bullet was gonna ricochet off the pavement and take out those two ole ladies walking down the street a 1/4 mile away????

If you're gonna pull your gun in self defense then it better by GAWD be self defense - which means your life is being threatened - you shoot to stop the threat. You don't shoot as a warning.

Bad law IMO. Really bad law. Gonna lead to some unintended consequences.

 

[Backstrap]

I'm reminded of the young boy killed a while back when a shot was fired at a snake in a tree by a police officer and it hit the boy when it came down a long ways away.

Just for the record, in the shooting incident you refer to the boy wasn't killed by a bullet that "hit the boy when it came down a long ways away" - it was simply a missed shot by the officer that hit the boy who was fishing at a nearby pond (he actually fired two shots): http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/08/05/oklahoma-police-kill-5-year-old-boy-while-shooting-at-snake/

I agree that warning shots shouldn't be made legal nor encouraged.

 

[Arin Morris]

I guess this is the Biden "two blasts" initiative?