If you thought Gannett was bad...

[CitizensHaveRights]

...look at the unbiased coverage in a Florida Cox Enterprises paper:
http://opinionzone.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2015/10/21/florida-sheriffs-oppose-open-carry-legislation/

[gryphon]

Florida Sheriffs Continuing to Speak Out in Support of Open Carry

Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith spoke passionately about the Open Carry bill (SB-300 by Sen. Don Gaetz) in Senate Criminal Justice Committee on 10/20/15.  Watch his testimony here: 

Wakulla County Sheriff Charlie Creel was represented at a press conference in support of the bill that was held in the Capitol 10/06/15.

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey has been very outspoken and testified in support of the Open Carry bill in the House Criminal Justice Committee on 10/06/15.  Watch his testimony here: 

Additionally, Sheriff Ivey has recently written an OpEd article in support of Open Carry.  Read it here: http://www.guns.com/2015/10/22/florida-sheriff-my-support-of-open-carry-goes-even-deeper/

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20151026/florida-alert-sheriffs-continuing-to-speak-out-in-support-of-open-carry

[gryphon]

For decades Law Enforcement agencies have instructed citizens to put alarm signs out front of their homes and businesses to deter criminals.  In fact, most agencies will even instruct citizens to prominently place an alarm sign at their location even if they don’t have an alarm.  Why?  Because we are trying to make their homes and businesses hard targets and not soft targets.

The same theory applies to open carry when we are trying to protect our citizens.

I don’t want our citizens to have to defend an attack that could have easily been avoided had they been able to clearly demonstrate to a waiting criminal that they are a hard target and not a soft target.

Sheriff Wayne Ivey

http://www.guns.com/2015/10/22/florida-sheriff-my-support-of-open-carry-goes-even-deeper/