Ladra hopes you weren’t planning a peaceful stroll through downtown Miami without a sidearm. Because Florida’s top cop — handpicked by Gov. Ron DeSantis himself — just told everyone to holster up and show it off. Because that’s what we need in the Sunshine State: more guns. Attorney General James Uthmeier, a DeSantis loyalist appointed […]
Ironically, lawmakers want to repeal Parkland gun law The inevitable barrage of “thoughts and prayers” is coming. A mass shooting Thursday at Florida State University in Tallahassee ended with the death of two people and the injury of five others. Phoenix Ikner, a 20-year-old political science student, was taken into custody. The son of […]
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? On the eve of the inauguration last week, Florida State Rep. Mike Hill (R-Pensacola) filed a bill Monday that would roll back the gun restrictions passed by last year’s state legislature in the wake of the student shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland. “The law that was […]
The Coral Gables City Commission is poised to approve a mostly symbolic ban on the sale of assault weapons — there are no gun stores in the City Beautiful — even though state law prohibits cities from enacting gun restrictions and they could be removed from office. Let’s keep our trigger fingers crossed. Mayor […]
While our electeds in Tallahassee mess up a perfectly starter gun control bill with their crazy school militia program and GOP House members repeatedly oppose amendments to close the gun show loophole, Democrat candidates in this year’s state elections are taking it straight to the source — urging the Miami-Dade Youth Fair and Expo to cancel […]
Republicans have shot themselves in the foot. In just a few days, GOP legislators in Tallahassee. by forcing a program that puts guns in public schools, have done more for the Florida Democratic Party than anyone since Al Gore. When the Florida Senate voted Monday 20-18 to pass the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School […]
If there is one local state elected we need to replace this coming November, please let it be State Rep. Jose Oliva, the Miami Lakes Republican who sponsored the odious school “safety bill” (pffft) that doesn’t ban assault rifles but arms teachers in schools, instead. This is the man who will direct the House agenda […]
Ladra is lucky that her puppy is a graduating senior. The rest of you may need to start looking into home schooling after a group of Florida legislators on Tuesday voted to arm public school teachers — calling them “marshals.” This is what House Bill 7101, proposed urgently by State Rep. Jose Oliva in the wake […]
Sen. Marco Rubio almost totally blew it. Okay, yeah, sure, the Republican who has taken $3.3 million from the NRA during his political career was brave for just showing up at the CNN Townhall Wednesday in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High in Broward last week. The crowd at […]
On Wednesday, a 19-year-old former student with an assault rifle walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County and opened fire, killing 17 people and wounding at least 15 more. On Thursday, at 1 p.m., the Florida Senate Appropriations Committee will consider a bill that would make it easier for convicted felons who […]