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This rationale cannot, especially considering the Western intellectual tradition, be denied. As the intellect knows, before he can even think, a Floridian will shoot without considering his epitaph. Nevertheless, all this has led to controversy.

A tourist might assume that it is the State of Florida that is considerate enough to instruct the eighty million clueless tourists that keep its tourism industry moving in high gear every year about the possible consequences of its new law. Wrong! The badly-timed warning shot comes from an organization that has been campaigning against the all-too-easy access to guns for years.

Thus, rather than call the new self defense law disgraceful, Florida Governor Jeb Bush criticized the distribution of these flyers, which only annoyed the poor tourists who had been traveling for hours to land there, a place called Paradise by its residents.

And in the spirit of heaven on earth, Florida is working on a new law, one which would impose serious fines on companies that forbade employees to stow weapons in cars parked on company property. Now the gun control advocates have marched all the way to the foreign press to give Florida's geographic outline a whole new meaning. Look here! Florida is a state shaped like a revolver.