Here's To Florida!

Today, I raise my glass or orange juice to the state of Florida.  Their state legislators just passed a gun reform bill which requires a 3-day waiting period for gun purchases, a minimum age of 21 to buy a gun, a ban on bump stocks, and appropriates more state funding for mental health programs.  Good!

On the flip side, they did not ban assault weapons and they approved on-site gun possession for school staff.  Not so good.

Is it enough?  Of course not.  Not nearly enough.  But it's a start, a baby step in the right direction.  And it happened in Florida, that red neck haven, the crazy-cracker-barrel home of the infamous stand-your-ground (license to kill) law.  If they can do it, so can others.  Now we'll see if Governor Voldemort signs it.

Buckle up and be patient.  It took a long time for America to get so gun crazy.  It'll take a long time to restore gun sanity.  But the movement has begun.  I wish our invertebrate federal legislators would take the lead on sensible gun law reform, rather than wait out the state-by-state approach.  Yeah, if they would go ahead and do that, that would be great.