SMYRNA, Ga.—Hundreds of people lined up outside Georgia’s largest gun store hours in advance to hear Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speak on tour for his book “The Courage To Be Free.”
DeSantis spoke at Adventure Outdoors in the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna on March 30. The crowd, estimated conservatively by DeSantis’s book tour team at over 650 people, crowded into a second-floor event room upstairs from what the company calls “the actual largest gun store in the world” on its website.
Conservatives, Republicans, book readers, and the just plain curious gave the governor of the neighboring state a warm welcome. The crowd didn’t dwindle as DeSantis gave a longer-than-average speech of around 70 minutes, in which he detailed the challenges he’s faced in Florida since his 2018 election and the often-bold steps he’s taken….