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Florida "Stand Your Ground" is moving through the legislature!

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#1 ·
E-mail just out:


Dear Gun Rights Supporter,

I wanted to make sure you saw David's recent email; I attached it below.

The bill strengthening Florida's Stand Your Ground law has been moved back to the Senate, and could be voted on as early as today!

The Florida House of Representatives passed the Stand Your Ground strengthening bill, SB 128, but made a minor amendment to the bill so the Senate must vote to concur with the House amendment.

If this bill were to pass, it would make it much more difficult for overzealous prosecutors to attack law-abiding citizens for using a firearm for self-defense.

SB 128 is currently waiting to be voted on in the Senate.

To turn this bill into law, I need you to contact your Senator and encourage them to vote for SB 128, the Stand Your Ground protection bill.

Click here to find your Senator's contact information.

If you've already contacted your Senator, please forward this email to all of your pro-gun friends and ask them to contact their Senators as well.

Thank you for your continued support.

-- Dudley Brown


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Dear Gun Rights Supporter,

Florida is just a few steps away from improving the current Stand Your Ground law.

The Florida House recently passed Senate Bill 128, a bill designed to better protect citizens from overzealous prosecutors in Stand Your Ground cases.

SB 128 is now in the Senate again to concur with the House amendments.

To turn this bill into law, I need you to contact your Senator and encourage them to vote for SB 128, the Stand Your Ground protection bill.

Click here to find your Senator’s contact information.

Stand Your Ground is a very simple concept.

It says that you can defend yourself against threats to your life anywhere you have a right to be.

In many other states, you are required to try to turn your back and run away when someone is threating your life, putting your life at even more risk.

Florida led the way by being the first to do away with this dangerous requirement by being the first state to pass a Stand Your Ground law in 2005.

Since then, Florida’s Stand Your Ground law has been under attack by the media, anti-gun organizations, and even state prosecutors trying to undermine armed self-defense.

Senate Bill 128 would put a stop to rogue prosecutors and their vendettas against law-abiding citizens who use a firearm to defend themselves.

If the Senate truly stands with gun owners, it MUST pass this Stand Your Ground strengthening bill.

But they’ll need some additional encouragement -- that’s where grassroots pressure comes in.

So please contact your Senator to support SB 128, the Stand Your Ground protection bill.

Click here to find your Senator’s contact information.

Once you’ve contacted your Senator, please consider chipping in $50, $25, or $10 to help us bring even more Second Amendment activists into this fight.

Thank you in advance for your continued support.

If you've already contacted your Senator, please forward this email to all of your pro-gun friends and ask them to contact their Senators as well.

For Freedom,


David McDonald
Director of Communications
Florida Gun Rights


P.S The Florida State House of Representatives recently passed a Stand Your Ground strengthening bill, Senate Bill 128.

Now we must make sure that the State Senate concurs the amendments to SB 128, the Stand Your Ground strengthening bill.

So please contact your Senator and encourage them to support the Stand Your Ground strengthening bill SB 128.

Click here to find your Senator’s contact information.

After you’ve contacted your Senator, please chip in $50, $25, or even $10 to help us bring more gun rights activists into the fight.

With your support, we can make a great improvement to Florida’s Stand Your Ground law!

After you’ve contacted your Senator, forward this email to everyone you can think of who supports the right to self-defense.
 
#2 ·
Yes. Told y'all this when it happened.

The House passed SB 128 (Senate Version of Burden of Proof) with an amendment that reduces the prosecution's burden in a pre-trial immunity hearing to 'clear and convincing evidence' vs. 'beyond a reasonable doubt'.

Because the bill was amended, it must go back to the Senate for approval. I don't see any issues with this happening.

What else ya got??? :grin
 
#3 · (Edited)
Knew it passed the House but thought everything died in the Senate. Is the above mentioned email just a result of some sort of time delay?

ETA: Moving this to Legislative Initiatives
 
#5 ·
Oh, another excuse to beg for money from the Florida Wing of NAGR. Should have read the OP more closely! :doh
 
#6 ·
This is a VERY common occurrence with bills (one chamber making a change and bouncing it back to the other chamber). The fact that it is happening now, with 2.5 weeks left in the 2017 Regular Session, is a testimony to the favorably the bill is receiving from leadership, and from competent handlers (lobbyists) managing the bill. You can really start to sweat these "bounces" when they are happening in the last 48 hours of Session. <---- THAT, can be nerve wracking.

People/orgs often try to fund raise off of routine things, and will add an unnecessary levels of drama to the situation. I call it the, "Sell Fear - Offer Hope," model. They tell an, "Ain't it awful" story (selling more fear than the situation warrants), and offer an oversold and simplistic solution, "Send us $100, so we can continue the fight," (when in reality, the fight is all but over).

Don't get me wrong, the orgs that are actually on the ground doing stuff, or interviewing candidates during election season really do need $$$ to keep working, but not all these groups carry the same weight or do the same work in Tallahassee. This phenomenon can be terrible with local chambers of commerce, where the local chambers fund raise on the work of the Florida Chamber, when the locals have almost zero involvement in the issue.

(Not expressing or implying that this email is from an organization that doesn't work hard... speaking in general terms about process only. I know nothing about Florida Gun Rights)
 
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