danb
dont be a dumbass
http://rkba.org/research/cramer/shall-issue.html
Sound familiar?
Maryland DOES look like a pistol, lol. by the way, this was written 25 years ago! Have Maryland legislators learned anything?
I dont think I will live to see the day Frosh admits he was wrong.
These quotes are from a paper written in 1994, by Kopel and Cramer. Funny how our legislators appear stuck in the 1960s hysteria about carry permits.
So, how exactly is Florida doing 32 years after they legalized carry in 1987?
Miami, 51. Baltimore 300+. If that were a Cricket score, Baltimore would be winning. Maryland is not winning! In fact, homicide rose 35% after the 2013 disaster MD legislators enacted.
Speaking of carry permits, these are the states that have legalized carry. Almost all of them have a lower crime rate than Maryland
https://www.gun-nuttery.com/rtc.php
oh yeah, and the last image are the places one's, ahem, FL non-resident permit is good. Which costs $97 plus $20 for fingerprints. My HQL should be my carry permit in MD.
Stop the hysteria and educate your legislator to support HB0342. If Bloomberg wants guns for his peeps at Hopkins, what is good for the billionaire is good for the rest of us.
HB0342:
http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=billpage&tab=subject3&id=hb0342&stab=01&ys=2019RS
Florida has collected the most detailed information about the impact of the carry laws. Florida also provides a good test case for the possible negative impacts of carry reform. A high-crime state with heavy urbanization, a massively over-crowded prison system, and an extremely diverse (and often tense) ethnic mix of population, Florida has all the ingredients for concealed carry disaster.
Sound familiar?
Coverage of the Florida reform in The Economist (a British newsweekly) typified most of the American national media's coverage. The magazine asserted that after taking a few hours of training, "Anyone who wants to carry a pistol may now do so." Apparently, the provisions about minimum age requirements, drug abuse, felony convictions, mental hospital commitment, and misdemeanor convictions, excluded no one in The Economist's eyes. The Florida media were sometimes hysterical, predicting that the law would increase lawlessness and death. Opposing legislators warned that Florida would become "the GUNshine state."
Maryland DOES look like a pistol, lol. by the way, this was written 25 years ago! Have Maryland legislators learned anything?
Representative Ron Silver, the leading opponent of Florida's carry reform, graciously admitted in November 1990, "There are lots of people, including myself, who thought things would be a lot worse as far as that particular situation [carry reform] is concerned. I'm happy to say they're not." John Fuller, general counsel for the Florida Sheriffs Association, stated, "I haven't seen where we have had any instance of persons with permits causing violent crimes, and I'm constantly on the lookout."
I dont think I will live to see the day Frosh admits he was wrong.
Accordingly, we now look at the overall trends in Florida murder rates. Of all the states that enacted concealed carry reform, Florida shows the most dramatic change. As the graph details, Florida's murder rate throughout the period 1975-1986 was between 118% and 157% of the murder rate elsewhere in America. After passage of Florida's law, the murder rate began declining, rapidly, dramatically, and consistently, at a time when the rest of the U.S. was experiencing an increase in murder rates. By 1991, Floridians were less likely to be murdered than people elsewhere in America. Only in 1992 did the murder rate percentage stop falling. Even then, this is because the U.S. murder rate fell more than 10% from 1991 to 1992, while the Florida murder rate fell "only" 5%.
These quotes are from a paper written in 1994, by Kopel and Cramer. Funny how our legislators appear stuck in the 1960s hysteria about carry permits.
So, how exactly is Florida doing 32 years after they legalized carry in 1987?
Miami recorded 51 homicides [in 2018] according to statistics supplied by the city’s police department. That’s down from 59 in 2017 and its lowest yearly total since in 1967. And of those 51 homicides, only 39 were the result of gunfire.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article224083340.html#storylink=cpy
Miami, 51. Baltimore 300+. If that were a Cricket score, Baltimore would be winning. Maryland is not winning! In fact, homicide rose 35% after the 2013 disaster MD legislators enacted.
Speaking of carry permits, these are the states that have legalized carry. Almost all of them have a lower crime rate than Maryland
https://www.gun-nuttery.com/rtc.php
oh yeah, and the last image are the places one's, ahem, FL non-resident permit is good. Which costs $97 plus $20 for fingerprints. My HQL should be my carry permit in MD.
Stop the hysteria and educate your legislator to support HB0342. If Bloomberg wants guns for his peeps at Hopkins, what is good for the billionaire is good for the rest of us.
HB0342:
http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=billpage&tab=subject3&id=hb0342&stab=01&ys=2019RS
Clarifying that personal protection or self-defense can qualify as a good and substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun for purposes of the issuance by the Secretary of State Police of a permit to carry, wear, or transport a handgun