Florida House passes ‘warning shot’ bill.

[DEAD7]

http://www.theshootershangout.com/florida-house-passes-warning-shot-bill/

The Florida House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HB-89, a “warning shot” bill Thursday, allowing for a person to brandish a firearm or fire a warning shot when feeling threatened.

After two days of intense debate, the measure was approved 93-24, while the Senate tentatively approved a similar measure, according to the Bradenton Herald.

The bill was introduced by GOP state Rep. Neil Combee, in response to the notorious Marissa Alexander case. She received a 20-year sentence after being caught up in Florida’s 10-20-Life statute when she fired a warning shot to ward off her abusive estranged husband.

After serving 21 months, an appeals court granted Alexander a new trial.

Fort Lauderdale Democrat Rep. Perry Thurston sought unsuccessfully to use the bill as a vehicle to amend Florida’s “stand your ground” law, but the bill’s sponsor wouldn’t have it.

“The reason I got interested in this was not because I wanted to do anything with ‘stand your ground,’” Combee said, according to the Herald. “I didn’t want to repeal ‘stand your ground.’ I didn’t want to strengthen ‘stand your ground.’ ‘Stand your ground’ was not on my mind. Marissa Alexander was on my mind.”

 

[ExodusNirvana]

 

[tmonster]

I only have to visit the resorts
shyt at this point I am not even gonna follow the trials

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

*waits for the first warning shot to "hit" someone "accidentally"*

 

[NZA]

unfortunately, no one who spent money on +p+ hollow points is going to be firing warning shots, friends

 

[End Cruelty]

What were they debating? "Somebody has to vote against this. It can't be unanimous. That'd be shady, right?"

Threats are legal now with deadly weapons. I at least hope these people seek training for their firearms. I can't dispute their madness anymore.

 

[el_oh_el]

I believe this was in response to the lady that fired the warning shot and got jailtime..

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Am I the only one who thinks that more black men are about to be gunned down and the shooter will walk do to this new ass backwards bill?


wtf is going in in Florida?

 

[Rice N Beans]

wtf is going in in Florida?

Patriotism.

 

[Mr swag]

This is a great law


As someone who has a concealed license

Hope VA passes this

 

[Liquid]

She should not have been hit with 10-20 years in the first place.

Man this country has some dumbfukks in the legal system

 

[Suicide King]

Now if you miss you can say it was warning shots, not aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Or my favorite, shoot pot shots to break up a crowd who is minding their own buisness.

I haven't read the bill, but I bet it doesn't care who starts the who thing.

 

[Hulk Hogan]

UNLEASH A HIGH VELOCITY PIECE OF METAL INSIDE A HOUSE WITHOUT REALIZING THE MANY POTENTIALLY FATAL CONSEQUENCES, BREHS!

 

[ltheghost]

I just can't......Florida...WTF. Just give people a reason to fire a weapon...Warning shot..if people understood that firing a weapon is not a damn warning!!!

 

[acri1]

SMH. Guess this is a reminder that no matter how stupid something is, it still might happen in Florida.