Florida AG candidate: Don't let school shooting 'take away our right to bear arms too'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 02/19/18 05:37 PM EST

A Republican candidate for Florida attorney general said that the mass shooting at a Florida high school shouldn’t be used to “take away our right to bear arms too."

Florida state Rep. Jay Fant (R), who is running for the top law enforcement job, accused liberals of trying to dismantle gun rights in the wake of the shooting in a series of tweets on Monday.

He singled out Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum in the tweets. Gillum has been a vocal advocate for new gun laws in the days after the shooting, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

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Fant had also tweeted last week in support of maintaining current gun laws after the shooting.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/374568-florida-ag-candidate-dont-let-school-shooting-take-away-our-right-to

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Yep, let those damn kids just fear for their lives every day!

The NRA has spoken!

[LisaM]

2. Here is the opportunity for those Florida HS kids.

They can go work for his opponent.

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. Won't someone please think of the guns

[Phoenix61]

4. What a worthless POS

I hope this tanks his election plans. We have enough of them in office here already. Gaetz is more than enough of an embarrassment.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Jay won't be getting any new friends with this

idiotic statement. I hope that the residents protest at his office non stop.

****If FL Gov Scott and Sen Rubio continue with their BS I hope the tourism to the sunshine state will dry up despite the high humidity.

[Horizens]

6. Help Me Out Here

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

What well regulated militia did Nikolas Cruz and the other mass murderers of children belong to?

[SergeStorms]

26. There isn't a .....

"well regulated militia" in the entire U.S. I know those beer guzzling bozos in Michigan and Idaho think they're "well regulated", but every militia I've ever read about in the U.S. is comprised of pseudo-patriotic rejects who think they're brave, until the bullets start flying. They're little boys who never got tired of playing, "army man".

[YessirAtsaFact]

7. Its time to destroy the NRA

I hope Mueller lays the wood on them for money laundering

[SergeStorms]

28. At the very least.....

return them to the organization that actually WAS patriotic and concerned with gun safety, not fronting for the arms manufacturers, stuffing as many guns as possible into everyone's hands. I actually remember the NRA being a decent organization when I was growing up. Then they started politicizing everything, and buying politicians left and right. They're a bunch of fascist assholes now.

[Leghorn21]

8. Thats okay, because he did send The Kids some prayers, see?

Jay Fant
@jay_fant

What's happening in Parkland today is every parent and law enforcement officer's worst nightmare. My prayers are with Parkland right now.

2:51 PM · Feb 14, 2018

No thoughts, just prayers.
Slackin motherfucker.

[Angry Dragon]

13. Prayers do not stop bullets

Their god has a plan..........but no one knows what it is

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

9. Im so done with the illogic of these fools. You got a tyrannical govt ? Well go get your weapons

off the black market like any other self- respecting revolutionary.

And here's a hint guys - youre gonna need a whole lot more than just guns. If there's a bunker buster nuke headed towards your house your stockpile of assault rifles aint gonna do a whole heck of a lot. I mean - get a clue already!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JDC]

10. F Jay Fant.

[durablend]

11. Not enough dead kids I guess?

Guess Fant needs a higher body count.

[Angry Dragon]

12. Advocates for a form of child abuse..........terrorism in the schools

[Ahpook]

14. Fucking clown!

I like how these freaks throw out their screed and seemingly never revisit. There are plenty of people blasting these comments and they never return to defend their views.

Each one of these inflammatory Twitter posts must include a fat check from the NR fucking A.

Trump being the worst. I never see him defend his bullshit

[cstanleytech]

15. The whole point of the varies laws that have been proposed are not meant to take away

peoples right to bear arms rather its to simply to try and make sure assholes do not get ahold of them and keep on mass murdering innocent women and children.

[Turbineguy]

16. Watch out for the gun grabbers!

Taking your gunz away is only a ruse!

They are just interested in saving childrens' lives!

[Lonestarblue]

17. Rename the NRA as National Republican Administration.

Rabid gun owners are quick to claim that any restraint on their gun rights is a vilolation of the 2nd Amendment. They should be reminded of these words from the Declaration of Independence (the political bands of the Republican Party definitely need to be dissolved):

“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

That right to life should outweigh any right to buy and use military weapons with high-damage bullets. These weapons are being treated as playthings, not as the tools of death they are.

[LiberalFighter]

18. He needs to be challenged with that statement. And all of the others too.

Banning certain firearms is not taking away the right to bear arms. Just certain types and certain people that are not fit. And Jay Fant is not fit.

[turbinetree]

19. And this asshole wants to be an attorney general..............

Hey Fant, do you know fully why the first amendment was well first, and the second amendment was well second, clue one is always ahead of two,

So that the young adults, men and woman in your state that have been traumatized by you and others of bullshit comments, and do you realize, that these young men and woman are going to vote, some of them are eighteen this coming November, do you fucking realize this--------------------and you want to be an AG

You said this:

"The Parkland killer has taken away enough from us. Let’s not let this tragedy take away our right to bear arms too."


Why don't you go and ask the parents of the dead what was taken away from us..............are you that fucking stupid

Take a look at this and see how fucking red your state is.............

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

[rockfordfile]

20. the republican sided with the murder and nra.

[mpcamb]

21. Aim your appeals at mothers. Aim your criticism a those who are stained with NRA $.

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[MGKrebs]

22. Thank you!

[mpcamb]

23. Yours to please.

[MGKrebs]

24. It's out of our control now, asshole.

If y'all had given an inch in the past 20 or 30 years, maybe we could talk, but you went 'all in', and now we'll see if you won or not.

[murielm99]

25. This is just so stupid.

No one is going to take away the guns of law abiding citizens. This is not about rounding up all the guns and taking them. It is about sensible gun laws and sensible restrictions on who can own guns. These fools know that. They are trying to stir up the ignorant.

[elleng]

27. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008)

“Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited…”. It is “…not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”

“Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”

“We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms. Miller (an earlier case) said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those “in common use at the time”. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of ‘dangerous and unusual weapons.’ ”

The court even recognizes a long-standing judicial precedent “…to consider… prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons.”

[VMA131Marine]

29. This is where I point out that in 2017

NYC and cities in Connecticut were recording absolute lows in homicides not seen in 70 years or more. Meanwhile, in gun friendly Ohio, Columbus, Cleveland, Akron and other locations were seeing record highs. Columbus had 140 homicides compared to NYCs 290, and the population of NYC is ten times as big. New Haven, CT had 7 homicides in 2017 compared to 34 in 2011. CT passed significantly stricter gun control legislation in 2013 in the wake of Sandy Hook.

[Ohiogal]

31. I wish Chris Murphy would run for President.

[FuzzyRabbit]

30. Jay Fant (R): "My right to have any gun I want

is more important than your right to life."

[B Stieg]

32. We call BS!

I believe that's what the Parkland kids would say.