Feedback on O'Malley's "Discussion Website" about CCW

Kharn said:

The people posting about no fee or permits should not be required will do us more harm than good.

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Nanook said:

Fees for this and fees for that – this isn’t supposed to be a cash-cow for a bunch of politicians to waste on silly projects. It’s about the fundamental right of self defense.

According to the MSP there are around 12,000 active permits. Take away the business ones and then you have roughly 200 permits issued for true ’self defense’. When looking at Maryland at large, the criminal element has a 99.999937% chance of assaulting/robbing/mugging/raping/killing/carjacking an unarmed individual. Not even Dove soap is that pure and good. The funny (actually very, very sad) thing is people don’t understand why we have so many repeat criminals.

I recommend that the permit process be taken away from the state police. Virginia’s program is administered through the court system and works wonderfully. Let’s let our hard working cops get back to their real jobs.

I propose that:
-the fee be reduced to $100 with five or seven years before a renewal is due.
-the training requirement should be basic so the system is not overloaded. It’s not about the formal or required training, states that have no training requirement have no more issues than rigid ones – it’s about the gun owners who understand that they have to KNOW what to do and how to do it and take responsibility to do so.
-at least one day during each school year every child be made aware that guns are not toys. A school assembly with basic facts, e.g. if you point a gun at your friend and pull the trigger, they get dead and stay that way. Maybe some of our kinder and gentler people could work on that message…

Thank you for pretending to listen to your constituents.




Saying what I say every day to folks I meet -

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teratos said:

I have no problem with a permit process. Can you imagine if MD became a State like VT or AK? Open carry...Baltimore would be a nightmare until the not-so-law-abidng citizens killed themselves off. A fee and background check that only serves to show you are not one of the folks who should not carry a gun is acceptable to me.

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Papi4baby said:

I agree with this. I know some of you will do pretty much anything to get the permits. But please, dont let yourselfs be violated (huge fee) to get something. Remember, 500 for you might be nothing, but alot of hard working people can't drop 500 or 250 a year on a piece of plastic. Granted i understand that you can't put a price on life. But let's be more realistic. It would have to be price similar to the other states.

for the good comments on the page.

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Papi4baby said:

I agree with this. I know some of you will do pretty much anything to get the permits. But please, dont let yourselfs be violated (huge fee) to get something. Remember, 500 for you might be nothing, but alot of hard working people can't drop 500 or 250 a year on a piece of plastic. Granted i understand that you can't put a price on life. But let's be more realistic. It would have to be price similar to the other states.

for the good comments on the page.

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I think we need to think about Massachusetts who has a similar population size as MD. Even though they are a “may issue” state, their permit process is much more reasonable and as reported by the Boston Globe [Many players regard firearm as a necessity: Concealed weapon licenses common,November 10, 2006] as a result they have 200,000 handgun carry permits issued (Class A LTC) to their citizens (this is not counting the non-resident Class A LTC). If Maryland went shall issue or had a more just permit process, we may have a similar number of permit holders and 200,000 times the $125 fee is what for our budget……

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