Palm Beach County plans to lift ban on guns in parks (Florida - Mirrors state law)

[shadowrider]

Basketball, suntan lotion, beach blanket — handgun.

The new list of what's allowed in Palm Beach County parks will soon include firearms under revamped county rules that got the initial go-ahead on Tuesday.

After years of banning guns from county sports fields, beaches, camp sites and other recreation areas, the local rules are being changed to allow people with concealed weapons permits to bring their guns to county parks.

The final vote is Jan. 11.
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County officials say the change comes after a local resident alerted them that the local ban on firearms in county parks didn't comply with a state law, approved during the 1980s, that allows concealed weapons permit holders to bring their firearms to parks in Florida.

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County Commissioner Steven Abrams, who helped push for the rules change, said the county has to follow state law.

"We are talking about permitted weapons. I personally don't have a problem with permitted weapons being allowed," said Abrams, a Republican.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-guns-parks-palm-20101221,0,6366215.story

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[spin]

2. Yep. Currently 773,016 people have concealed weapons permits in Florida ...

and in the period of 23 years between October 1, 1987 and November 30, 2010, a grand total of 168 licenses have been revoked for a crime involving the use of a firearm after the license was issued. In the same time period a total of 1,885,875 licenses have been issued.

Sounds like 168 people out of 1,885,875 are truly idiots. Perhaps you feel that's a lot of idiots, but compared to other groups of people such as police officers and their misuse of firearms, that's a extremely low number.

Now I will admit that 773,016 people with concealed weapons licenses is a lot, but I would hesitate to insult them by calling them "gunnuts". To me they are just honest citizens who have invested the time and the expense to obtain a carry permit.

source: http://licgweb.doacs.state.fl.us/stats/cw_monthly.html

edited to correct spelling blunder and add link.

[shadowrider]

4. If records are kept for this forum, that poster has to hold the record for most deleted posts n/t

[Atypical Liberal]

3. This is just as it should be.

If a law-abiding citizen, who has been vetted and found able to have a concealed carry permit, can carry a firearm down a busy city street surrounded by his fellow pedestrians and motorists, there is no reason why he should not also be able to do so in a park, or even a school campus.

[Endangered Specie]

5. The laws weren't even legal in the first place were they?

Doesn't Florida have a 'state law trumps local laws except for discharge ordinances'?

[toastbutter]

6. Much like WA state

Seattle mayor tried a similar ploy with Seattle parks and wasted a lot of taxpayer money for naught.