Miguel Gonzalez on the Brady Campaign's hatred of Florida. What failure looks like 20 years later.
Miguel found an old photo from 2005 of the Brady Campaign handing out "warning leaflets" at Miami International Airport about the new Stand Your Ground law enacted in Florida.
Every single Gun Control Group, almost every newspaper and media outlet was furiously bashing the law and Democrats were swearing on several dozen stack of bibles that Florida was about to become the Wild West. The fight against SYG continue for at least 5 more years till they figured out that Floridians liked the law and a case in Miami made it to the State Supreme Court and it confirmed as firm law of the land.
The kicker was when the gun control group would issue a recommendation that came to be view as anti-Hispanic.
That pamphlet indicated that visitors should not be loud or use hands in wild gestures for fear that armed Floridians may be startled by that and shoot them on sight….which was probably one the dumbest thing ever said in a community which is 65% Hispanic known to speak very loudly and gesturing so much with our hands, we make Italians look like mute quadriplegics.
It helped get the "Brady Bunch" tagged as racists. At least in certain parts of the country.
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