Florida's permit has superb reciprocity, so people apply for them from all over the country.

That said, nice milestone!

to live in gated communities? How many guns will they need to think they are safe?

It takes a lot of money to live in a gated community, and like all states, FL has more people outside the gates than inside.

I have searched for homes there and damn near everyone is in a gated community.
These aren't wealthy communities either I visited a couple in an RV park in Florida
they paid $17000 for a camper in a gated community. That is the main reason I have sort of forgotten the idea of moving there, if there is that much crime I think I will stay in Ohio.

Gated dommunities aren't free. I just did a search. I picked a town at random, Dover, and kept the price under $80,000. None were in gated communities.

I certainly don't. I don't know anyone who lives in one, although I do drive past them.

"Everyone you know" does not equal "everyone in Florida" by a long shot, pardon the pun.

and only a few of my friends or co-workers have lived in a gated community. I am far from being rich.

While the crime rate in Florida is high it is at a 40 year low.

I finally retired so far I love it there. I visited a couple in a RV park near Arcadia and there was an open gate (maybe they close it after hours) also a sign that read all visitors must sign in at the office, they certainly aren't rich they bought a $17000 camper. I have a neighbor in Ohio that lives in the Rotunda 6 months a year I haven't been there but he says it is a gated community, according to him his home cost $750,000 he is pretty well off. I have relatives in Fort Lauderdale, I am going to visit them this winter, they say they live in a gated community. I know a couple that moved to the Villages last March not sure about that place, I don't really think I would want to live with 60,000 or so retired Republicans. I done some searching on real estate sites last year and seemed like most homes were in gated communities. Of course these were in your coastal areas near Sarasota, Fort Myers and Lauderdale. I'm sure out in the country there are lots of places that aren't gated. This year I plan on driving instead of flying so I can see more of the interior less congested places. I ran into a family of your rednecks on a fishing boat last winter, they sure as hell don't live in a gated community unless there is a guard tower. There was 6 of them and they didn't have a full set of teeth among them, they were onto some old guy's back on the boat because he was seasick, assholes..

That is where the nearest VA dental clinic happens to be. That is also the only reason I go there. Besides being all Republican, it is just one big assed sterile sculpted monoculture (plant and human) of over priced houses. If you can afford it, Key West is the place to be.

Don't make the mistake I made by buying in Citrus County. Picture Archie Bunker leaving Queens and coming here after he retired.

Our family lived behind a cattle gate, but we were the only family. Do we qualify?

$5 million (ugly) castle looking house they have a barbed wire fence and a red cattle gate across their driveway. I don't know it just doesn't seem to match the property.

Red. Foul.

Guns and ammunition are an absolute BAD.

Just had a double cup of hot chocolate.

And what in the hell good can come of this??

Legal concealed carry saves more innocent lives than it takes.

In Texas the detailed statistics are compiled annually by the Department of Public Safety and published on the internet. It is likely that the Texas experience with Concealed Handgun Licenses would be about the same in other states. The last year for which statistics are published is 2011 for convictions. http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/chl/index.htm

In 2011 there were 512,625 people who had CHLs. Out of those people there were exactly four (4) murder convictions. Out of the general population there were 553 convictions for murder in its various forms.

So very, very few CHL holders go bad, but some do.

The DPS also publishes an annual Crime in Texas Report. http://www.dps.texas.gov/crimereports/10/citCh3.pdf
From that report, page 15:

Statistics on murder circumstances, victims, and
victim/offender relationships on the next page
include justifiable homicides. Justifiable homicide
is the killing of a felon by a peace officer in the
line of duty or the killing (during the commission
of a felony) of a felon by a private citizen. In
2010, there were 98 justifiable homicides, of
which, 50 were felons killed by private citizens,
and 48 were felons killed by police.

In Texas all homicides, even those that are clearly self-defense, have to go before a grand jury which will rule if the killing was justified or not. So those 50 justified private citizen homicides were ones in which the defender genuinely and legitimately feared for his life. Since most shootings are merely woundings there would be a much larger number of justified woundings in which the defender genuinely feared for his life, but that number is not kept. Obviously there are dozens of cases each year in which a CHL holder uses their gun to save themselves.

Dozens of innocent lives saved versus four innocents killed shows the concealed carry is working in Texas. As already stated, there is no reason to believe that other CCW states have a different experience.

Legal concealed carry saves innocent lives.

...why do you care?

I imagine that it's a lot like watching a black and white TV.

The fact is that firearms and ammo are neither good or bad and are just inanimate objects. They are used by people to for either good or bad purposes.

...But the station keeps changing the call letters!