The Welcome to episode 17 of the Charles CW Cook podcast. Happy Friday.

It was Groundhog Day yesterday, which in Florida we mock a little, because here there is no such thing as six more weeks of winter.

Six hours maybe.

Six days if we're unlucky, but six weeks? that's for other states that's for the sort of

states where people wear coats and wool hats and shoes.

My guest today is Paul Gregory who, well, who knew Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who killed JFK.

Paul and I talked about how they met,

what he was like, about why the many conspiracy theories that sprung up afterwards don't make sense to him,

and about why he chose now, 60 years later later to start talking about his experience. But first I want to talk

about constitutional carry or permitless carry.

In particular, I want to push back against the idea that refusing to require American citizens to apply for

permits before they're allowed to carry their legally owned firearms is some sort of unhinged or radical move.

So as you may have read, the Florida legislature is currently preparing a bill that would make

conceal carry permits optional in the state.

Now given that Republicans have super majorities in the State House of Representatives and in the State Senate.

And given that the governor has said he'll sign any bill that comes out of the legislature

that makes concealed carry permits optional, it looks likely to pass.

And as a Florida voter, I think that's good.

In my view, concealed carry permits, while constitutional,

are a form of prior restraint on a constitutional right and being the plucky little

libertarian that I am I oppose prior restraint on constitutional rights.

Suffice it to say though, the press,

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