Florida Supreme Court votes for weapons of mass destruction | Editorial – By Sun Sentinel Editorial Board (South Florida Sun Sentinel) / June 4 2020
It’s not just criminals who get no sympathy from the Florida Supreme Court. There’s none for law-abiding citizens, either. Not when the choice is between public safety and the morbid absolutism of the National Rifle Association.
By a 4-1 vote Thursday, the court’s far-right bloc disapproved an assault weapons ban proposed for the 2022 ballot. Not only did the gun lobby ask the justices to reject the citizen’s petition drive, so did Attorney General Ashley Moody. She’s supposed to be the people’s lawyer, but she is arm-in-arm with gun manufacturers and others who believe the Second Amendment allows no limits on personal ownership of weapons of mass destruction.
Remember Moody the next time there’s a Florida dateline on news of a mass murder.
The ill-fated citizen’s initiative was inspired by the 2018 Valentine’s Day slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where a 19-year-old former student armed with a military-style assault weapon left 17 students and teachers dead and 17 others wounded.
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