Field trips to Florida

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm with you OP. My kid has a tournament there this summer and I really wish it were held somewhere else. If the team qualifies for the national tournament in CA next year (held in fall/winter), I will have my kid sit out the summer one in FL.

Where do you live? Do you ever go to DC? I feel safe traveling to Florida for vacation but avoid anything in DC at the moment. Turn on the local news. Luckily, there are not mandatory field trips or tournaments anywhere. Don’t sign your kid up if you don’t want them to travel.

You sound a bit.... hostile. Why do you care so much about my travel preferences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm with you OP. My kid has a tournament there this summer and I really wish it were held somewhere else. If the team qualifies for the national tournament in CA next year (held in fall/winter), I will have my kid sit out the summer one in FL.

Where do you live? Do you ever go to DC? I feel safe traveling to Florida for vacation but avoid anything in DC at the moment. Turn on the local news. Luckily, there are not mandatory field trips or tournaments anywhere. Don’t sign your kid up if you don’t want them to travel.

You sound a bit.... hostile. Why do you care so much about my travel preferences.

Because you started a thread about them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm with you OP. My kid has a tournament there this summer and I really wish it were held somewhere else. If the team qualifies for the national tournament in CA next year (held in fall/winter), I will have my kid sit out the summer one in FL.

Where do you live? Do you ever go to DC? I feel safe traveling to Florida for vacation but avoid anything in DC at the moment. Turn on the local news. Luckily, there are not mandatory field trips or tournaments anywhere. Don’t sign your kid up if you don’t want them to travel.

You sound a bit.... hostile. Why do you care so much about my travel preferences.

Because you started a thread about them

Nope. The post to which you are responding is my first post in this thread and clearly was written directly to the OP to show that I commiserate with his/her sentiments. I will not be responding to you further because:
a) your question to me is intrusive, i.e., it is none of your business where I live
b) your last comment to me was rude and life is too short to deal with random anonymous, hostile people

Enjoy your future vacations in FL and I'll enjoy mine in CA and other states that don't allow concealed permitless carry!

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Per 100,000 firearm homicide rate (2015)

Constitutional Carry vs No CC

CC No CC
AL 8.3 CA 3.52
AK 5.22 CO 2.46
AZ 3.56 CT 2.43
AR 5.34 DE 6.12
FL 4.66 HI *
GA 5.73 IL 5.45
ID 1.29 LA 9.96
IN 4.61 MD 7.69
IA 1.62 MA 1.26
KS 3.35 MI 4.74
KY 3.96 MN 1.77
ME 1.14 NE 2.67
MS 9.91 NV 4.49
MO 7.92 NJ 3.22
MT 2.17 NM 4.69
NH 0.96 NY 2.07
ND 1.69 NC 4.54
OH 4.38 OR 2.35
OK 5.87 PA 4.34
SD 1.97 RI 0.99
TN 5.71 SC 7.55
TX 4.04 VA 3.29
UT 1.29 WA 2.32
VT 1.76 WI 3.18
WV 2.89 91.1/23=3.96 average (no CC permitted)
WY 2.16
101.5/26= 3.90 average (CC permitted)


https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/report_0.pdf

[Anonymous]

The law in Florida is CONCEALED carry without a permit. Not open carry-that is not legal.

I live in Fl and have a permit (I do not carry though) and, while I think a permit should be required-I have not seen an impact from the new law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Per 100,000 firearm homicide rate (2015)

Constitutional Carry vs No CC

CC No CC
AL 8.3 CA 3.52
AK 5.22 CO 2.46
AZ 3.56 CT 2.43
AR 5.34 DE 6.12
FL 4.66 HI *
GA 5.73 IL 5.45
ID 1.29 LA 9.96
IN 4.61 MD 7.69
IA 1.62 MA 1.26
KS 3.35 MI 4.74
KY 3.96 MN 1.77
ME 1.14 NE 2.67
MS 9.91 NV 4.49
MO 7.92 NJ 3.22
MT 2.17 NM 4.69
NH 0.96 NY 2.07
ND 1.69 NC 4.54
OH 4.38 OR 2.35
OK 5.87 PA 4.34
SD 1.97 RI 0.99
TN 5.71 SC 7.55
TX 4.04 VA 3.29
UT 1.29 WA 2.32
VT 1.76 WI 3.18
WV 2.89 91.1/23=3.96 average (no CC permitted)
WY 2.16
101.5/26= 3.90 average (CC permitted)


https://www.statefirearmlaws.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/report_0.pdf

These are rates, so that is not an accurate average. It's not clear what the correct result is, but I think the no permit would go up and the no CC permitted would go down, given the more populous states and how they compare.
Also, I feel the labels are wrong here, as WV, WY are where you do not need a permit for CC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Florida has passed a permitless open carry gun law. https://www.flgov.com/2023/04/03/governor-ron-desantis-signs-hb-543-constitutional-carry/

So many of our kids go to Florida for national competitions. How do we encourage those organizations to change the location of their events. I don’t want my kid going to the Wild West to compete in a tournament.

Florida passed a permitless CONCEALED carry law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Florida has passed a permitless open carry gun law. https://www.flgov.com/2023/04/03/governor-ron-desantis-signs-hb-543-constitutional-carry/

So many of our kids go to Florida for national competitions. How do we encourage those organizations to change the location of their events. I don’t want my kid going to the Wild West to compete in a tournament.

Florida passed a permitless CONCEALED carry law.

Read the thread. It was corrected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Florida has passed a permitless open carry gun law. https://www.flgov.com/2023/04/03/governor-ron-desantis-signs-hb-543-constitutional-carry/

So many of our kids go to Florida for national competitions. How do we encourage those organizations to change the location of their events. I don’t want my kid going to the Wild West to compete in a tournament.

It's permitless concealed carry in Florida, not open carry. We don't have open carry in Florida. You can decide if you think open carry or concealed carry is more dangerous. A lot of the venues your kids will go to already do prohibit firearms - but enforcement is going to be very difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Florida has passed a permitless open carry gun law. https://www.flgov.com/2023/04/03/governor-ron-desantis-signs-hb-543-constitutional-carry/

So many of our kids go to Florida for national competitions. How do we encourage those organizations to change the location of their events. I don’t want my kid going to the Wild West to compete in a tournament.

Florida passed a permitless CONCEALED carry law.

Read the thread. It was corrected.

I read it, thanks the VERY FIRST post says 'open carry'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm with you OP. My kid has a tournament there this summer and I really wish it were held somewhere else. If the team qualifies for the national tournament in CA next year (held in fall/winter), I will have my kid sit out the summer one in FL.

You think your kid would be safer in California? Seriously?

Statistically much so, yes. There is data to support this now, although certain forces have worked long and hard to suppress clear data about everything and anything related to firearms. That said, I was surprised, too, but CA ranks much lower on gun related deaths vs. Florida. However, FL is equal to MD, so….

[Anonymous]

To add; Alabama ranks 5th (gun related deaths), DC 11th, and FL and MD are 30th and 31st.

[Anonymous]

CA, NY and HI are among the lowest in the US (firearm related per capita deaths).

[Anonymous]

If adjusted for homocides only (as opposed any and all firearm fatalities including suicides, accidents, FL is 21st and CA 31st.

So statistically you are safer from firearms in CA vs FL.

For comparison, DC jumps to the top in the country (together with AL, LA, MS, and MO)

Lowest for homocide: All of New England, HI, and ID.