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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Instead of making this an overall gun control debate, this is pretty simple.

The attorney general, a lifetime moco loberal- advised the MD state police that they had to comply with the scotus ruling.   So did the governor.  Thats pretty much it.

Anyone who wanted them to do something other than that, is living in a dream world. [/quote]

His actual statement vs your imagined statement

“Today’s decision means more deaths and more pain in a country already awash in gun violence.  If the norm is that people can carry firearms, our neighborhoods, our streets and other public places will become more dangerous.  It will make the lives of law enforcement more difficult and more perilous.  The epidemic of gun violence sweeping our nation demonstrates daily the folly of introducing more guns into this boiling cauldron.

“Maryland, like many other states, has enacted common sense gun laws that place the lives and safety of our residents first.  They have been proven to reduce gun violence.

“We will examine today’s ruling to determine its impact in our state, and we will continue to fight to protect the safety of Marylanders.”[/quote]

And we will continue to fight. There are so many peoole ready to fight and have prevailed before.

Get involved with gun control  groups  like Moms Demand Action and others. We aren't done here. [/quote]

Governor (no friend of gun owners) Hogan, the rabidly anti-gun Attorney General of Maryland and the Supreme Court of the United States would beg to disagree. You are, in fact, done. [/quote]

The AG does not agree. The SC also doesnt think blacks and women are equal because it was not originally in the constitution.[/quote]

If you read the AG opinion, he doesn’t like it, but is compelled to admit the defunct “good and substantial” requirement is unenforceable in light of Bruen. [/quote]

So, tgat doesn’t mean he must suspend it. It also doesn’t mean he can’t put other laws in place to protect MD citizens. He was ordered to do so by Higsn so he can shed his Tino label. He’s a turncoat.[/quote]

Too many pronouns and some confusion about who’s responsible for what.

The AG’s office (despite the AG’s personal animus) confirmed that as a result of Bruen, any attempt to enforce the “good and substantial” requirement would violate the Constitution and subject the State and its agents to liability under the Civil Rights Act.

The Governor, consistent with this conclusion and the plain language of the Bruen opinion, directed the State Police to stop violating people’s civil rights.

The Secretary of the Maryland State Police properly followed the advice of the AG and obeyed the Governor’s order, as he was obliged to do.

There are plenty of laws in place to protect Maryland citizens, although a lot of them don’t seem to work very well because they’re not enforced. Wear and carry permits still require detailed background checks, freedom from disqualifying factors such as criminal history, and extensive (and expensive) fingerprint checks and training repeated at regular intervals, not to mention purchase licensing, long lists of forbidden firearms, magazine capacity restrictions, and so on.  Crimes involving the misuse of firearms are still serious crimes with serious penalties (although those seem rarely imposed).  [/quote]

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