This Bill protects us "Law Abiding" citizens from criminals.
Now the criminals don't know who is carrying.
I've told this story before but I will again because...
Back in the day, we had a lot of trouble with Foreign Tourists getting car-jacked after landing at Miami International.
They'd land, get in their rental car and leave. Leaving Miami Int'l, if you turn right, you're good to go, if you turn left, you head right into Liberty City. Not cool. That place was, and still is, like the poorest, run down village in central Nigeria you can imagine. No difference. Zero. Except Nigeria is safer.
And they'd get Car-Jacked. Almost every time. It got so bad that the EU placed a Travel Warning on Florida. Disney, Miami Beach, etc got kinda pissed and told the Governor to do something. Or else.
He was clueless.
Until somebody pointed out that -- All rented or leased cars in the State back then were required to have license tags that started with an 'X' a 'Y' or a 'Z'' Don't know why. No idea. Nobody else knew either.
But the Street Urchins in Liberty City knew that if they saw some White People in a car with tags that started with one of those letters..... They knew they probably wouldn't be armed. Car Jacked. Robbed. Beaten Up. Sometimes sexually assaulted.
This is Florida. At least half the residents on the road in Florida carry guns in their cars. It's not against the law. Never has been, really. Cops don't even bother.
And if a Street Urchin tries to Car Jack Billy Bob, ol' Billy will blow his head off -- fast. Without a doubt, no hesitation. One less Street Urchin, thank you.
So all we did was to eliminate using those letters on rented or leased autos.
It slowed down a lot. But after a while, the Street Urchins started running out of walking-around money and were trying to carjack people they should not have been trying to car jack and getting blown away.
It got so bad that the NAACP got POed about all the Street Urchins getting killed. 4cereal
The Governor told them to piss-off but the papers till picked up on it.
But we don't care a whole lot what College Sophomore 'journalists' think down here.
Car-Jacking pretty much ended in that area. Once in a while you'll read about some Street Urchin getting his shit blown away..... If the DISGUSTING FILTH is bothering to do its job. Which it seldom does. You can check the Sheriff's Dept for more news than you'll get on TV.
The moral of the story is....... You're right. when the criminals don't know who's armed it cuts down on a lot of crime. It also removes criminals from the gene pool