23 ordspråk av Peter Hamm
Peter Hamm
I can't understand why anybody would be opposed to telling visitors what the law is. No state in America has ever passed a law like this one.
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I don't know what the NRA is smoking. They're taking on the business lobby, which is just foolish.
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I have to hand it to them. This came out of nowhere, and it obviously makes it harder to fight it.
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It continues to add shame to shame.
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It is reasonable to make people know that while they're visiting Florida they should take the right precautions to avoid potentially being victims of violence,
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It's a particular risk faced by travelers coming to Florida for a vacation because they have no idea it's going to be the law of the land. If they get into a road rage argument, the other person may feel he has the right to use deadly force.
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It's a violence issue, it's not a firearms issue. It's a potentially dangerous solution to a non-existent problem.
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It's an education campaign,
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It's really a potentially dangerous solution to a nonexistent problem because there is not a scenario of legitimate self-defense anywhere in the country that doesn't get treated by juries, prosecutors and police as self-defense.
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It's really a terrible bill. There is no problem out there that needs to be solved.
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It's time for the state of Virginia to grow up and say you can't have concealed weapons in the legislature and offices. You don't have a right to put other people's safety at risk in the state legislature.
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Lockyer is extremely good on the gun issue, and we generally trust his office.
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The biggest myth in Florida is [that] this is about protecting people who use legitimate self-defense. This law ... sends a message to people who are potentially unstable and have an itchy trigger finger that as long as they can make a reasonable case they were in fear, they can use deadly force against somebody.
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There is no other state in the nation -- and no other civilized nation on Earth -- that has a law like this, ... It could cause the most aggressive people in society to overreact.
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There is no other state in the nation -- and no other civilized nation on Earth -- that has a law like this. It could cause the most aggressive people in society to overreact.
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