I'm glad you're optimistic. Seriously I am. Lot of doom and gloom around myself included. Seems like no matter how logical an argument we produce they hate us and that's all the reason they need to hose us. And smile all the while.
I enjoy being the under dog, and so long as they have not made 3rd reader in the Senate, we still have a chance, no matter how slim it is.
My optimism is born out of what I saw in 2013 as the outcome. We made the Democratic leadership threaten members of their own party to get a bill passed. The Democrats on the joint committee voted in favor of the amended bill back in 2013 under protest and absolutely none of them could look us in the eye after the committee vote.
Hang around long enough and if we can get people to work that hard again, we can have greater success, since currently Maryland House is not occupied by a Democrat (Yes, I know there is some debate on his allegiance, but he won't come across the street and team up with Miller and Bush to threaten members of the Democratic party to pass bills like O'Malley did in 2013).
BTW, the more face to face interaction we have with our Delegates and Senators, the harder it is for those on the fence to lean to the left on a bill.
And finally, when you (or anyone else reading this) hits them with facts, make those facts as personal to you as possible, in how the bill will affect you and your family and the safety thereof.