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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister lived in south Florida for a few years. As a DC transplant, she called it Fori-duh...said she was surrounded by conservative gun-toting morons. Most people work in hospitality and have no clue or interest in politics or the community.

She knew she couldn't raise a family there, so she left. [/quote]
Uhh, south Florida is one of the most reliably Democratic areas in the country, and is populated almost entirely by transplants from the Northeast or immigrants. But okay. [/quote]
Seriously! South Florida conservative? Gun heavy? I just about spit out my drink.

I just about spit out my drink. Maybe PP’s sister was just scared of brown people or people who speak Spanish and that’s why she decided to leave. Easier to say “it’s the conservatives!!”[/quote]

Well, it's not Texas but is absolutely gun-heavy compared to DC. They have the death penalty and that's a good indicator of a kill or be killed type atmosphere. [/quote]
Gun ownership rates:
Well EVERYWHERE is gun heavy compared to DC. At 24.5%, Florida ranks 41st out of 51 states in gunownership- lower than Virginia at 35.1% and about equivalent to Maryland at 21.3%. [/quote]

Florida's gun ownership rate is like Maryland's, but Florida's murder rate is about one-third lower than Maryland's, according to FBI crime reports.  Maryland has no stand-your-ground law, and routinely prosecutes people who defend themselves in their own homes from armed attackers.

Wyoming has a more lenient "stand your ground" law than Florida's, and has a murder rate almost two-thirds lower than Maryland's, and a murder rate one-third lower Florida.  
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