Floridians won’t get to vote on an assault weapons ban in 2020

Well, because they couldn’t even manage to get 20% of the needed signatures to cause a referendum. Not that referendums should be used to restrict rights, especially one enumerated in the Bill of Rights against government infringement and ruled ‘fundamental’ by the Supreme Court.

What is surprising is that there’s that many people who care so little for rights that they’d want to vote them away.

Florida voters won’t get to decide this year whether assault weapons should be banned.

A proposed ban didn’t get the 766,200 signatures needed to be placed on the ballot.

Supporters say they are now focusing on getting the question before voters in 2022. The group pushing the petition — Ban Assault Weapons Now — collected 145,000 verified signatures this past year. The deadline to meet the signature requirement for this year’s election was Feb. 1.