Assuming this is sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Ugh.
not that it matters, but I went to high school with that concerned mother. Never expected to see her on a Wake message board 20 years later.
For more than a year, the state of Florida failed to conduct national background checks on tens of thousands of applications for concealed weapons permits, potentially allowing drug addicts or people with a mental illness to carry firearms in public.
A previously unreported Office of Inspector General investigation found that in February 2016 the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services stopped using a FBI crime database called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that ensures applicants who want to carry a gun do not have a disqualifying history in other states.
The employee in charge of the background checks could not log into the system, the investigator learned. The problem went unresolved until discovered by another worker in March 2017 — meaning that for more than a year applications got approved without the required background check.
[h=1]Adam Putnam’s office stopped concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn’t log in[/h] A state investigation found that the lapse covered a period that included the biggest spike in permit applications in Florida history.
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-pol...-checks-for-a-year-because-it-couldnt-log-in/
Putnam's ad for governor touts expanding concealed carry as one of his accomplishments.
In the year since, there were fewer applications, about 200,000, but 2,000 more denials than the previous year when the federal background check system wasn't accessed.
Yet on Friday, Wilde told the Times she had been working in the mailroom when she was given oversight of the database in 2013.
"I didn't understand why I was put in charge of it."
Yet again, Republicans want to cater to the lowest common denominator. Lowest standards wins.
It could crush Putnam's campaign if any of the people who get permits approved during that period were found guilty of any crimes whether they would have gotten one otherwise or not.
Melchior believes his encounters with police in New York and Chicago have been a violation of his civil rights.
“The hostile environment created toward gun advocates in the Northeast is not unlike the hostile environments a black man would have experienced in the South hundreds of years ago,” he said Tuesday.
“It was frustrating because there were a lot of kids, a lot of teenagers. Then there were all of these adult men who had guns. They had an armored vehicle with a gun mounted on it,” Love said. “We were protesting not being able to feel safe in school because of guns. It felt insensitive.”
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“If they think the best thing to do for their brand and image is to follow a group of teenagers whose schools were shot up,” Love said, “then that’s their decision.”
Two busloads of March for Our Lives activists have been crisscrossing America, sowing the seeds of discontent over current gun laws, and they’re starting to sprout: Scores of loosely affiliated groups that share a name and a political agenda with March for Our Lives have popped up across the nation, even in such scarlet red-states as Arizona.
In Florida and on the road, the students have made one of their central missions encouraging young people to register to vote. In Florida at least, the numbers are encouraging. This past week, an analysis by TargetSmart, a data firm that works on behalf of Democrats, found that the share of newly registered Florida voters between the ages of 18-29 had increased by eight percentage points in the two and a half months after the shooting.
The political acumen of the Parkland students has left even some of their allies agape. “As remarkable as we acknowledge their leadership has been, we’re still not giving them enough credit,” U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, told the Miami Herald.
Is Elkman the one with the beard?