{"id":65764,"date":"2021-03-13T06:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65764"},"modified":"2021-03-13T06:24:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T12:24:12","slug":"65764","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65764","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Pro-gun sheriff refuses to meet with anti-gun group<\/a><\/p>\n

Hoffman recently sent a letter to Sarasota\u2019s Brady Bunch chapter refusing their request for a meeting \u2014 and then he told them why.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. McLain and Ms. Rescigno,<\/p>\n

Thank you for your recent request to meet. I am very familiar with the bradyunited.org 12- point platform and I have fundamental differences regarding nearly every objective of Brady.\u00a0 I am a member of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the 2nd\u00a0Amendment Foundation, in addition to being a Life Member of the NRA. \u00a0I have been a law enforcement officer in this state for over 32 years, eight years of which were as an Assistant State Attorney, and I am satisfied that the laws on the books in Florida sufficiently protect this community from gun violence.<\/p>\n

In Sarasota County we have worked diligently over the past decade prosecuting part one crimes, including gun crimes.\u00a0 We have reduced part 1 crimes by 52% since 2009.\u00a0 This reduction represents the largest part 1 crime reduction in the state of Florida for law enforcement agencies serving populations of 100,000 or more.<\/p>\n

We made these strides without infringing on our citizen\u2019s constitutional right to keep and bear arms, more succinctly stated, we went after criminals, not lawful gun owners.\u00a0 \u201cGun safety\u201d is often cloaked in language that essentially bans certain guns, ammunition or magazine capacities while criticizing award winning programs like Eddie Eagle.\u00a0 Calling certain firearms \u201cweapons of war\u201d and \u201cassault weapons\u201d while limiting how many rounds a citizen can carry for self-protection or creating gun registries is a non-starter for me.<\/p>\n

I represent many citizens in this county who have businesses related to the firearms industry and who protect their family and property with firearms your organization seeks to ban. I cannot support that.<\/p>\n

Thank you for reaching out but I will respectfully decline your offer.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Kurt A. Hoffman<\/p>\n

Kurt A. Hoffman
\nSheriff
\nFBI National Academy Graduate 2014
\n6010 Cattleridge Blvd. Sarasota, Florida 34232<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Pro-gun sheriff refuses to meet with anti-gun group Hoffman recently sent a letter to Sarasota\u2019s Brady Bunch chapter refusing their request for a meeting \u2014 and then he told them why. Enjoy! Dear Mr. McLain and Ms. Rescigno, Thank you for your recent request to meet. I am very familiar with the bradyunited.org 12- point … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65765,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65764\/revisions\/65765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}