Editorial
A 2018 South Florida school massacre seemed to have changed national attitudes on gun safety legislation. But as the fifth anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas approaches, gun-safety advocates fear the state is sliding backward.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is vowing to make Florida the 26th state that allows gun owners to carry their weapons without a permit or training, dubbed “constitutional carry” by supporters.
Gun-safety advocate Fred Guttenberg tweeted that the so-called constitutional carry provision is really “political carry.”
Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime, then 14, was killed at Parkland, wrote the proposed legislation “will add more guns in more places to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.”
More guns doesn’t make us safer, and we live in a dangerous state and we should be pushing laws that change behavior, but politicians seem to be pushing more guns with less regulation.
Permitless carry measure that Gov. Ron DeSantis wants will do more harm than good.