Oh yeah? Strange, they NEVER show up HERE, where everybody carries. If I didn't know better, I'd say terrorists are cowardly little weasels, who crap their pants at the mere
thought of a real confrontation. NEVER seen one here, NEVER will.
They always go to the puss-wah states, like Jersey and Illinois, where they KNOW the police will protect them, and they will be safe.
The Gunshine State...
...not that it makes a difference. They all know where they are safe.
They're all hiding in B.O.'s home state, and milk-sucking gun free zones.
We use their sweat to paint lines on the highway.
Well, that's interesting fantasy you're engaging in there. The most fantastical fantasy is that "everybody carries" in Florida. According to
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Alabama on the other hand, one of your bordering neighbor-states, only issues to residents and keeps no statistical records at the state level. County Sheriffs are the issuing authority and any reporting is voluntary from each individual Sheriff.
Last we heard, a little more than a year ago, 63 out of our 67 County Sheriffs' offices voluntarily responded to an AL.com poll, so the total number of permits is estimated for the four counties that didn't respond, but that's nowhere near as variable as not even knowing how many resident vs. non-resident permits are issued in FL. In any case,
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But the variables in AL actually inure to more guns being carried here per capita than in FL because open carry is fully legal here and doesn't require any permit. Granted, most people who do OC also maintain a permission slip so they can carry in other reciprocal states, but no one knows the number of people who carry without a permit, and whether a big or small number, it definitely adds to the overall percentage, whereas, FL's unknown variable of non-res permits issued necessarily subtracts from in-state stats on carry.
Everybody doesn't carry
anywhere in
any state. Even in the highest percentage per capita state in the Union, my own state of Alabama, at best somewhere between 12% and 13% carry, which means it would be more accurate to say that almost
nobody carries
anywhere in the nation than to wildly exaggerate that "everybody" carries in FL.
If all the terrorists are "hiding" in IL and other nearly gun free jurisdictions, how do you collect their sweat to paint lines on the highway?
Hyperbole can be a useful tool to make a point. Over-use of it however, just makes the user look like a fool.
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