A Florida man has been sentenced to six years and five months in prison for accidentally shooting a gun while taking a selfie in a strip club restroom.
The reason that Louis Murphy had a loaded gun in his luggage? He wasn’t going to be forced off of his United flight. The reason that Murphy had a loaded gun? When a man asks for extra peanuts, he wants them. The reason that Murphy had a loaded pistol? In case he signed with a team that used the shotgun, he was working up to it. The world is yucking it up this week over Murphy, the former receiver of…
Faced with new allegations of domestic abuse including sexual battery, Libertarian Party lightning rod and avowed ultranationalist Augustus Sol Invictus has been both lashing out at his “enemies” for what he calls slander and pursuing a dealĀ he saysĀ will heal his reputation and his relationship with the party. Invictus, who ran as a candidate for the Libertarian Party of Florida’s U.S. Senate nomination but lost in the primary, was accused in a March 21 reportĀ filed with the Edgewood Police Department by…
A spot of good news for some Hurricane Matthew evacuees: A law passed last year allows themĀ to carry concealed weapons or firearms without a permit to do so. The law allows concealed weapons āwhile in the act of complyingā with a mandatory evacuation order issued during a state of emergency declared by the governor or by local authorities. ItĀ defines ācomplyingā as the “immediate and urgent movement … away from the evacuation zone” within 48 hours of the evacuation order. It…
I have a blended family. A blended gun family. Some of us own guns ā lots of guns. Some of us donāt own any. There are shotguns, hunting rifles, revolvers and semi-automatic pistols among the weapons we own. Nobody in my blended family owns an āassault weapon,ā as far as I know. Hereās another thing about my family: Two of us have been shot and killed. It was a murder-suicide nearly 20 years ago. And hereās an ironic thing: The…
The League of Women Voters of Florida celebrated blocking a trio of gun bills considered by lawmakers in the 2016 Legislative Session, including one that would have allowed concealed weapons on college campuses. “Our joint forces succeeded in killing these bad bills this year,” saidĀ Patti Brigham, LWVFās newly appointed 1st vice president and the founder of the groupās statewide Gun Safety Committee. “We remain determined to keep Florida’s colleges and universities gun-free zones, and our state safe from other reckless…
As a pediatrician, Dr. Judith Schaechter can ask parents of her patients all sorts of questions regarding their safety and well-being: what the child eats, whether there’s a backyard pool and whether the child gets enough sleep. Yet the question of whether there is a gun in the home is generally off limits. A Florida law bans routine gun questions even though eight children or teenagers are killed every day in the U.S. with guns, according the Centers for Disease…
