David Jolly Wants to Curtail Florida Gun Rights, Says He Doesn't Agree With the Second Amendment

David Jolly wants to run Florida, and he's telling anyone who'll listen that he doesn't actually believe in the Second Amendment. Not "wants to tweak it" or "wants sensible reform." He said he doesn't agree with it. That's a remarkable thing for a man asking Floridians to hand him the governor's office, and it deserves to be taken at face value rather than softened into the usual campaign-trail euphemisms about "gun safety."

The specifics matter here. Jolly isn't just talking about background checks, which plenty of gun owners already support and already comply with. He's talking about banning entire categories of commonly owned rifles, and he wants to force gun owners to carry liability insurance just to exercise a constitutional right. Imagine applying that logic to voting, or to speech. Nobody would call that a modest policy adjustment. They'd call it what it is: a tax on a right, designed to price ordinary people out of owning something the Constitution says they're entitled to.

It's also worth noting how Jolly got here. He was a Republican once, and by his own account, one shooting in 2016 was enough to flip him into an "aggressive" gun control advocate who now rejects the amendment outright. Grief is real and Pulse was a horror. But Florida has fourteen million registered voters and roughly the same number of legal gun owners who never touched a trigger in anger, and treating them all as collateral damage in a policy overcorrection is not leadership. It's overreach dressed up as compassion.

Floridians get to decide in this race whether they want a governor who sees the Second Amendment as a problem to be managed or a right to be defended. Jolly has made his answer unusually easy to find. Voters should return the favor and make their answer just as clear.