{"id":57178,"date":"2023-02-11T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T20:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=57178"},"modified":"2023-02-11T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T20:07:10","slug":"constitutional-carry-is-not-gun-control-its-political-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/02\/constitutional-carry-is-not-gun-control-its-political-carry\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cConstitutional carry\u201d is not gun control its \u201cpolitical carry\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Editorial<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag-1024x637.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag-1536x956.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2018 South Florida school massacre seemed to have changed national&nbsp;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 <strong>sliding backward.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis is vowing to&nbsp;make Florida the 26th state that allows gun owners to carry their weapons <strong>without a permit or training<\/strong>, dubbed &#8220;constitutional carry&#8221; by supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57180\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gun-safety advocate Fred Guttenberg tweeted that the so-called constitutional carry provision is really &#8220;political carry.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime, then 14, was killed at Parkland, wrote the proposed legislation &#8220;will add more guns in more places to solve a problem that doesn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More guns doesn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Permitless carry measure that Gov. Ron DeSantis wants will do more harm than good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial A 2018 South Florida school massacre seemed to have changed national&nbsp;attitudes on gun safety legislation. But as the fifth anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas approaches,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[2149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57181,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178\/revisions\/57181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}