Quick backstory: after lurking for a year I signed up on MD Shooters this afternoon and said hello on the introductions page. I logged out and headed to downtown Annapolis to run errands. On the sidewalk I passed Sen. Brian Frosh (Bethesda) who, as all MD Shooter Warriors know, is The Man who is trying to strip everyone but LEO of guns in Maryland.
In front of Chick & Ruth's Deli I introduced myself and told him that what is being proposed is so drastic that threatens to split Maryland in two. I told him that I and other Maryland gun owners see the registration and taxing schemes as punishment, and that the resentment over this will NEVER go away...and would never be forgotten. He said "The Governor doesn't want to take away anyone's 2nd Amendment Rights" and that the proposal "only effects new people while you and everyone else like you can keep everything you have".
I told him it wasn't totally clear that current owners were grandfathered in. I repeated that the law changes were so severe that Maryland politics would never recover and asked him to consider that. Of course I realized I was pissing in the wind with him. I did not yell. Did not raise my voice. I thought that it was important that a sidewalk chat be "civil" because he was out in the open with no security and no place to hide....
I don't think he recognized me. Two years ago I aggressively criticized him from the witness chair at a Judiciary hearing on conceal carry....
In front of Chick & Ruth's Deli I introduced myself and told him that what is being proposed is so drastic that threatens to split Maryland in two. I told him that I and other Maryland gun owners see the registration and taxing schemes as punishment, and that the resentment over this will NEVER go away...and would never be forgotten. He said "The Governor doesn't want to take away anyone's 2nd Amendment Rights" and that the proposal "only effects new people while you and everyone else like you can keep everything you have".
I told him it wasn't totally clear that current owners were grandfathered in. I repeated that the law changes were so severe that Maryland politics would never recover and asked him to consider that. Of course I realized I was pissing in the wind with him. I did not yell. Did not raise my voice. I thought that it was important that a sidewalk chat be "civil" because he was out in the open with no security and no place to hide....
I don't think he recognized me. Two years ago I aggressively criticized him from the witness chair at a Judiciary hearing on conceal carry....
