{"id":30016,"date":"2023-02-11T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=30016"},"modified":"2023-02-11T15:06:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T20:06:27","slug":"constitutional-carry-is-not-gun-control-its-political-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/02\/11\/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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Editorial<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"637\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag-1024x637.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag-1536x956.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/gun-flag.jpg 1920w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30018\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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. 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