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Opponents, Anti-Gunners Horrified as Constitutional Carry Looks Inevitable in Florida.<\/a><\/p>\n Whether it\u2019s called constitutional carry, permitless carry or unlicensed concealed carry \u2014 which is probably the most accurate \u2014 the fact that soon millions of Floridians will no longer need a permission slip from the government to defend themselves has critics frothing at the mouth.<\/p>\n They\u2019re powerless to stop the massive restoration of our civil rights, regardless of how hard they whine or how absurd their prognostications of impending doom become. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has promised to sign the bill, and leaders in the House and Senate \u2013 where Republicans enjoy super-majorities \u2013 have promised to put a bill on his desk.<\/p>\n No one is taking the news harder than Frank Cerabino, a columnist for\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Palm Beach Post<\/em>\u00a0who has enjoyed ridiculing guns,\u00a0gun<\/a>\u00a0owners and civil rights for more than 30 years. As the bill progressed through the legislature, this angry little toad of a man has become positively deranged.<\/p>\n He\u2019s lost what little sanity he once had, and that was never much. Cerabino\u2019s March 7 column, which was titled\u00a0\u201cThe \u2018constitutional carry\u2019 lie and why gun advocates don\u2019t love the latest Florida bill,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0shows just how toxic his pent-up\u00a0why-won\u2019t-they-listen-to-me!\u00a0<\/em>anger has become.<\/p>\n In his column, Cerabino describes constitutional carry as \u201cpolitical fiction,\u201d and then he completely loses his damn mind.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Constitutional carry\u2019 is like \u2018legitimate rape.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d he actually wrote.<\/p>\n No, Frank, nothing is like rape \u2013 nothing \u2013 and you should know that. To compare rape to anything is repugnant, morally wrong and massively offensive. It trivializes the horrors sexual assault survivors struggle to live with every single day. It defies belief that this disrespectful and hurtful comparison was actually published by a daily newspaper.<\/p>\n In another tangled line, Cerabino showcases his ignorance of the law, rifles and ballistics.<\/p>\n \u201cOpen carry would also allow them to walk around in public with weapons too big to conceal, such as military-style mass casualty weapons like the AR-15, which fires projectiles capable of liquifying body organs and passing through metal,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n First, neither the House bill nor the Senate bill allows for the open carry of arms. That\u2019s the problem many of us have with this legislation, and the reason it\u2019s not accurate to call it constitutional carry. Therefore, no one will be walking around with a \u201cmilitary-style mass casualty weapon like the AR-15\u201d in Florida unless they\u2019re hunting, fishing or camping.<\/p>\n As to the AR-15\u2019s magic liquifying abilities \u2013 nope. Sorry, Frank, but that\u2019s pure bunk. The 5.56x45mm round was nothing more than a mediocre varmint cartridge until Eugene Stoner put it in his AR. In fact, many states prohibit hunters from using the round to harvest deer because it is too small. Compare the 5.56x45mm round to the two previous military calibers \u2013 7.62x51mm and .30-06 \u2013 and you\u2019ll learn the error of your ways, Frank.<\/p>\n Cerabino claims that after Gov. DeSantis signs an unlicensed concealed carry bill, we will want another \u2013 and we most certainly will. But his final comparison insults everyone who holds their right to keep and bear arms dear.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is what happens when you negotiate with terrorists. You give them one imaginary constitutional right and they\u2019ll demand another,\u201d Cerabino wrote.<\/p>\n Terrorists? Really?<\/p>\n I know more than a few heroes who left chunks of their bodies in foreign countries while\u00a0fighting<\/em>\u00a0actual terrorists, Frank. They\u2019re strong Second Amendment supporters who wouldn\u2019t appreciate being your terrorist label. Also, they never raised their hand and swore to protect and defend any \u201cimaginary\u201d constitutional rights. The only terrorists involved in this fight are those using the First Amendment to encourage further infringements upon the Second.<\/p>\n Nearly every state that successfully passed constitutional carry experienced some pushback from a small minority of\u00a0firearms instructors<\/a>\u00a0during the legislative process. Unfortunately, Florida isn\u2019t immune from this nonsense. One\u00a0gun<\/a>\u00a0shop here was passing out leaflets titled: \u201cConstitutional Carry (Maybe not such a good idea?)\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cConstitutional Carry (if passed) will allow any Florida resident of legal age, the ability to carry a firearm without any license or training,\u201d the leaflet states. \u201cUnfortunately, a lot of people will look at it as not having to pay for a Florida Concealed Carry class and save money. This is NOT what is good for the public, nor a responsible person.\u201d<\/p>\n It was written by the gun\u00a0shop\u2019s training division, and signed \u201cbecause we care.\u201d I\u2019m not naming the shop nor the owner. To his credit, he didn\u2019t post his opinion online, nor did he run to the local media. Though misguided and wrong, his position is not difficult to understand. He\u2019s worried that the end of the state\u2019s mandatory training requirement will lead to a\u00a0loss of revenue<\/a>\u00a0for him and his trainers. However, history shows us this is not always the case.<\/p>\n Many of the 25 states that passed constitutional carry experienced an increased demand for professional firearms training. Florida trainers will likely see the same uptick.<\/p>\n It\u2019s about to become much easier to carry a defensive firearm in the Gunshine State. Gun\u00a0owners will no longer need to beg permission from the state, pay a $97 fee, submit to background checks, mugshots and fingerprints like a common criminal in order to exercise a basic constitutional right. Most Floridians understand that carrying a defensive firearm is a heady responsibility, so\u00a0of course<\/em>\u00a0they will seek out professional training, if they haven\u2019t done so already.<\/p>\n Constitutional carry, unlicensed concealed carry or whatever else you want to call it will restore the constitutional rights of millions of Floridians. At the end of the day, that\u2019s far more important than anyone\u2019s financial concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Opponents, Anti-Gunners Horrified as Constitutional Carry Looks Inevitable in Florida. Whether it\u2019s called constitutional carry, permitless carry or unlicensed concealed carry \u2014 which is probably the most accurate \u2014 the fact that soon millions of Floridians will no longer need a permission slip from the government to defend themselves has critics frothing at the mouth. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90705","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=90705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90706,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90705\/revisions\/90706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\nIt\u2019s going to happen, and there\u2019s nothing they can do about it \u2013 that\u2019s the bottom line.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFriendly fire<\/strong><\/h3>\n