You’re in a Publix checkout line with a cartful of groceries. The customer ahead of you has a three-year-old in her cart. A man walks in the front door in a tactical vest with bulging ammo pockets and an AR-15 slung over his shoulder.

He’s only showing off — you hope. Maybe he’s looking to buy more ammo, though Publix doesn’t sell it — at least not yet.

It’s unlikely that the armed visitor intends to kill everyone on sight — but how can you be sure?

And how do you explain the firearm to your kids or grandchildren?

A shopping displeasure

Open carry, as the gun lobby calls it, is now legal in Florida thanks to a noxiously extremist First District Court of Appeal and unelected Attorney General James Uthmeier, who smugly refuses to defend Florida law by appealing the hideous decision in

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