O'Malley Press conference 1/18/13 @ 0930 - gun control

[Norton]

Question was just asked: Wouldn't licensing trample 2nd Amendment rights?

Answer: There is overwhelming support.

W T F

There used to be overwhelming support for segregation and Jim Crow laws in parts of the country too. Didn't make it right then either.

 

[JasonB]

There used to be overwhelming support for segregation and Jim Crow laws in parts of the country too. Didn't make it right then either.

Excellent point - everyone should point this out to the media.

 

[Scopenhagen]

Y'all are more patient than I. Can't even stomach it to watch.

 

[missing_the_cheese]

The whole license thing just sounds like another layer of paperwork barriers to make getting a gun more difficult and expensive to the man on the street. As someone who just bought my first gun I was amazed at the amount of paperwork required... I think the mortgage had fewer pages

 

[missing_the_cheese]

Anyone notice how Lt. Gov. Brown is getting the push by MOM and has been inches from the podium the whole time? I've had enough of these guys

 

[PJDiesel]

I'm misunderstanding the process I guess. We elect Delagates, based on County or Counties (population driven), then one person try's to ram through his own agenda, based on what the "public" wants?

 

[PvtHike]

The whole license thing just sounds like another layer of paperwork barriers to make getting a gun more difficult and expensive to the man on the street. As someone who just bought my first gun I was amazed at the amount of paperwork required... I think the mortgage had fewer pages

If they can't just get rid of guns, they'll make it as a big a PITA as possible just to keep people from bothering.

 

[J-Dog]

I'm misunderstanding the process I guess. We elect Delagates, based extremely biased districting (agenda driven), then one person try's to ram through his own agenda, based on what the "public" wants?

Fixed that for ya.

 

[Zanderx]

I'm misunderstanding the process I guess. We elect Delagates, based on County or Counties (population driven), then one person try's to ram through his own agenda, based on what the "public" wants?

Sucks but there is always one

 

[Eviljagtech]

Excellent point - everyone should point this out to the media.

The media isn't on our side, we need to fight 10X's harder

 

[dlmcbm]

I would love to show them a stock change from standard to AR style and ask them how it is more lethal.

 

[edjenkins99]

if this has been said,I will say it again,comman sense would be to reopen the state mental hospitals.
thank you

 

[Hotrod Diesel]

http://associatedgunclubs.org/pages/legislative_email_system/mail_to_jud.php

Go NOW ! This effects everyone. Just write that you do not support any further restrictions to law abiding gun owners. A few points to help you.

Criminals buy guns ILLEGALLY. Licensing law abiding citizens does nothing to prevent criminals from buying or stealing guns on the street.

Magazine limits only impede law abiding citizens from defending themselves when facing multiple attackers. Criminals do not care if a magazine is illegal, they are buying the entire gun illegally.

No one was killed with an "assault weapon" last year or several years prior, what will further restrictions prevent?

 

[Mark C]

There're half a dozen building lots in my neighborhood in Delta, PA, only a mile from Harford County. Just saying. :-)

 

[K-Romulus]

Still going, taking questions an AWb definitions

Eta: legis director said one feature test, bill text maybe released later today.

Eta2: video seems to be an automatic repeat, so may be actually over

 

[Wahama90]

I just got off the phone with Senator Dyson's secretary. She didn't know about the press conference but told me they are getting inundated with emails and calls about gun legislation. She said that unless you put your address in the email they will not respond to it. She says that they want to respond to their constituents, but have know idea where people are from without an address. I told her that I do not support any new gun legslation, and if the legislation passes I will stay in MD long enough to vote against everyone that supported it, and then move out of state.

 

[ChannelCat]

I'm misunderstanding the process I guess. We elect Delagates, based on County or Counties (population driven), then one person try's to ram through his own agenda, based on what the "public" wants?

Welcome to the Peoples Democratic Socialist Republik of Maryland.



Glendenning did the same thing when he rammed though his gun ban. He forces is though by bringing in fence sitters from the legislature in one and twos, sitting them down, and threatening to cut off funding to their districts if they didn't go along with his scheme. I expect no less than similar strong armed blackmailing from O'Malley....

 

[PJDiesel]

Still going, taking questions an AWb definitions

Eta: legis director said one feature test, bill text maybe released later today.

Eta2: video seems to be an automatic repeat, so may be actually over

It's a replay.....

 

[mdshore]

http://www.governor.maryland.gov/stream.asp

 

[lx1x]

I'm misunderstanding the process I guess. We elect Delagates, based on County or Counties (population driven), then one person try's to ram through his own agenda, based on what the "public" he wants?

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