I'll try to be polite about this...

Read this first.

Back?

Ms Hammer, while this may have started as a USF and NRA bill, you might notice that it started growing legs once the open carry people found out and got on board.

We feel sold out because we wrote lots of letters, made phone calls and sent e-mails while it was in committee to get it to the floor.  We objected strenuously to the neutering while it was in the judicial committee.

We are outraged that the same amendment we rejected in that committee was reintroduced by the same senator who had proposed it previously.  We were not mollified when it was allowed without debate or objection!  Your tone in your reply makes it sound like you think we didn't log onto the Florida senate's live feed to watch the sausage being made.

Now we're upset, but this is progress, we can live with it until next time...

Until we hear from Senator Bogdanoff that the amendment was suggested and supported by the NRA.  Tell me, Ms Hammer, who is lying?  You with your claim that this was the NRA's bill all along or Sen Bogdanoff who said you didn't get on board until it had been neutered?

Please stop acting like you are the only person we can go to for information.  The staffers are chattering about the back room wheeling and dealing, ma'am.

If this bill was, and always had been, about protecting the CCW holder from accidental exposure, why was it written as an open carry bill.  Seems the verbiage that was amended into it would have sufficed from day one.  But the original bill was for open carry, and that was the bill we wanted and supported.  You don't get to be insulted that we're angry about being short sheeted by the NRA at the last minute.

I will point it out again.  Why did the AWB expire rather than be repealed?  The NRA did nothing.  Why is the Brady Act still law?  The NRA does nothing.  Why does the Hughes amendment still stand? The NRA does nothing.

Those are three easy ones, Ms Hammer.  Show me the NRA backing the repeal of those three laws each and every session until they are repealed and I'll start to believe you guys didn't stab us in the back, again.

If we'd waited around for the NRA to start moving, we'd not have either the Heller or MacDonald decisions.  Two cases you tried to horn in on and derail.

Starting to see why we're getting pissed off now?