Croatan
So did Wayne LaPierre, Chris Cox, and Donald Trump. On NRA TV Chris Cox supported red flag bills and said states should get money to implement them.
Good luck trying to convince a bunch of Maryland Republicans to out-gun the NRA. Hogan carved out a position to the right of Trump on the red flag and bump stock bill.
People can argue that the NRA sold people out, I would not disagree. But thats the past. At this point, go along, or get left behind. There is no going back.
Croatan
He's better than Ben Jealous or any of the other Socialists!!
A very looooooong time. Nothing you've suggested will happen between now and Nov.
Nobody is debating the merits of your idea. The question is what to do in the interim.
Right now the Dems in MD are torn between leftist and leftister. It will take a shock, like a 2 term republican gov to shock them into realizing that they have gone too far.
But maybe they haven't. It sounds to me as though people here want O'Malley back.
I'm not a single-issue voter. With reelection I'd expect to see continued tax relief, representation for Western Maryland/Eastern Shore, the uneasy bipartisanship, along with school sytem and Baltimore City accountability.
When he first got elected and didn't immediately take on gun issues many here felt he may be smart to wait until his second term. One can only hope....
Croatan
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Christine O'Donnel lost by 17 points , where Castle was polling to take the seat back. Everyone bemoaning Hogan has forgotten all the yes votes from R delegates the first round. They changed because they win by very few votes and very motivated voters. It is why O'Donnel won the primary, not many vote in them, but they do in the general...
He is going to ignore 1986 full auto laws, make Maryland a machinegun sanctuary state, and hand out untraceable auto sears.
It's stunning to me that so many ostensibly pro-2A will eagerly cast a vote for a guy who has signed multiple gun control bills.
This forum is still called Maryland Shooters, right?
Then maybe consider the possibility you are in the minority even among republicans in MD.
After all, that great defender of the 2nd amendment told us it was ok to ban bump stocks and "get the guns first, go to court later." See also: Chris Cox and Wayne LaPierre.