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Other Views: Bill Protects 2nd Amendment Rights
Florida Today, February 27, 2011
Freedom-loving Floridians place great value on protecting their constitutional rights. We’re especially passionate about the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and the right of self-defense.
This session, the Legislature is processing three bills that protect those rights.
One provides a mechanism to punish local officials and state agency administrators who intentionally violate the state firearms pre-emption law. It provides uniform gun laws and ensures everyone in Florida lives under the same gun laws, and will punish willful violators.
The second will stop doctors from interrogating patients about gun ownership and refusing to treat sick children if the parents decline to answer questions that have nothing to do with medical care. Gun-ban politics have no place in examining rooms.
The third will reform laws governing concealed weapons license holders. It will stop arrests of license holders if the firearm they are carrying is accidentally exposed. Some call it “open carry” because it allows license holders, and only license holders, to choose to openly carry their firearms.
It also allows license holders over age 21 to carry their firearms on college campuses for personal protection against crime.
These bills protect rights of law-abiding Floridians, and anyone who believes in personal responsibility, the rule of law, self-defense and freedom should support them.
State Sen. Greg Evers, R-Baker, chairman, Senate Criminal Justice Committee.
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