New bill making it legal to fire warning shots in Florida written by NRA lobbyist. Wait, what?

Courtesy of Gawker:  

The bill is sponsored chiefly by two National Rifle Association members, Republicans Sen. Greg Evers and Rep. Neil Combee, with a longstanding history of support for the gun lobby. But they did not write the bill, one of the legislators told Gawker in an interview: That honor fell to former NRA president and current gun lobbyist Marion Hammer. 

That revelation is just the latest chapter in Hammer's nearly four-decade NRA career, marked by ever-expanding pro-gun laws in Florida that become model legislation for other states. She was instrumental in the state becoming the first to issue across-the-board concealed weapons permits to residents in the '80s, and she almost singlehandedly created Stand Your Ground in 2005 in similar fashion, feeding language for the bill to its two sponsors—one of whom was Evers' immediate predecessor in the Senate. 

Now, she's put her imprint on a bill that would allow Floridians to openly brandish guns for the first time, and could lead to more permissive open-carry laws or lighter requirements for licensing in the future. 

The current bill would amend the state's expansive Stand Your Ground law—which permits residents to use deadly force in numerous circumstances—so that it also allows the nebulous "threatened use of force." In effect, it means that gun owners could walk free for brandishing their gun in a threatening manner or firing a shot indiscriminately to "warn" a potential assailant. 

That also means gun owners would get blanket immunity from the state's "10-20-life" law, which mandates an automatic 10-year sentence for anyone accused of flashing or using a gun in the commission of a felony. Numerous Florida politicians, including Jeb Bush, have long credited that measure with significantly decreasing the state's gun crimes.

You know you would think that a lobbyist for the NRA would be aware at some level that a bullet fired from a gun to "warn a potential assailant," is a bullet that can then find an innocent target to injure or kill.  So is that person now to be considered "collateral damage" in the legally protected right of some gun nut to fire their weapons indiscriminately?

You know years ago Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski was called out for allowing two oil lobbyists to write an amendment that stripped the EPA of its authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant.

But as egregious as that was, and it really was egregious, it pales in comparison to allowing lobbyists for an organization that receives its funding from gun manufacturers to write bills that quite literally increases the chances that a citizen of Florida could be shot dead in the streets by a bullet meant to "warn" somebody.