In The New Republic, Prem Thakker fulfills my prediction from last week and claims that, by signing permitless carry into law, Governor “DeSantis has now made it even easier for people to carry guns, and schoolchildren to get murdered.”
How?
Seriously, how? What’s the mechanism? Florida’s bill — like those that have passed in 24 other states — removes the requirement that legally eligible residents must obtain a permit before they carry firearms in a concealed manner while they are outside their homes. That’s it. It doesn’t change who may carry. It doesn’t change where those people may carry. It doesn’t affect which guns are legal and which are not. It doesn’t remove the federal prohibition on carrying firearms in schools. It doesn’t alter how firearms are bought, or bypass the associated background check system. It doesn’t repeal the rules against killing people. These “schoolchildren” who will now be “murdered.” How, specifically, will that happen?
Presumably,
He does not.