Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Democrats have been given the chance of a lifetime to engage centrists who want reasonable, not murderous, abortion laws, and who want reasonable, not murderous, gun laws.
PLEASE USE IT. We need to keep the house and senate!!!
The governor of the state has asked the state to comply with the SCOTUS ruling.
What would you have him do??
Take a stand and sue as a state.
Or comply and in a press conference, excoriate the ruling and say he's opposed to it and only doing it under duress.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why is he doing this? We are complying with the constitution? I thought SCOTUS wanted states to decide these issues. How can Hogan do this unilaterally? I am already so scared about gun violence in this area.
https://wjla.com/news/local/maryland-gun-laws-md-state-police-governor-larry-hogan-permit-wear-carry-weapon-supreme-court-ruling-new-york-law-provisions-standards-handgun
Did you read your own link? No SCOTUS did not invite states to decide this issue.
Let’s be fair, understanding SCOTUS is confusing. States can’t restrict gun laws, but they can restrict health care for women.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Democrats have been given the chance of a lifetime to engage centrists who want reasonable, not murderous, abortion laws, and who want reasonable, not murderous, gun laws.
PLEASE USE IT. We need to keep the house and senate!!!
The governor of the state has asked the state to comply with the SCOTUS ruling.
What would you have him do??
Take a stand and sue as a state.
Or comply and in a press conference, excoriate the ruling and say he's opposed to it and only doing it under duress.
Anonymous wrote:The Governor would have been personally liable for a s1983 suit for violation of civil rights if they had dragged their feet any longer on this. NJ and CA have already done the same thing, a week ago. Do you really think CA and NJ enjoyed having to reverse their policies?
This doesn't do anything more to let felons, the mentally ill, or anyone else get a wear and carry. It simply respects the recent decision that discretionary licensing regimes are no longer constitutional.
Maryland has one of the more robust permitting schemes already, with a 16 hr live fire class required, and the usual colonoscopy of one's background. People aren't getting carry permits to go commit crimes with them. Criminals dont even bother.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Democrats have been given the chance of a lifetime to engage centrists who want reasonable, not murderous, abortion laws, and who want reasonable, not murderous, gun laws.
PLEASE USE IT. We need to keep the house and senate!!!
The governor of the state has asked the state to comply with the SCOTUS ruling.
What would you have him do??
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why is he doing this? We are complying with the constitution? I thought SCOTUS wanted states to decide these issues. How can Hogan do this unilaterally? I am already so scared about gun violence in this area.
https://wjla.com/news/local/maryland-gun-laws-md-state-police-governor-larry-hogan-permit-wear-carry-weapon-supreme-court-ruling-new-york-law-provisions-standards-handgun
I don’t know who “we” is, but the State of Maryland was not complying with the Constitution. Hogan merely saved the State the costs of civil rights actions that were already being drafted.
“Gun violence” is a fake buzzword. Guns are inanimate. They have no will of their own. They are not self-locomoting. We don’t hear about “baseball bat” or “kitchen scissors” or “deliberate motor vehicle crash” or “toilet tank cover” violence.
Call it what it is: criminal violence and punish the criminals instead of decent people.
Anonymous wrote:Can I see a list of CCP requirements in MD?
He just invited the super majority Dems in the MD legislature to create all sorts of new requirements for the CCP license, like mental health screenings.
Anonymous wrote:I would respect Hogan more if he treated guns like cars. Require training, licensing, registering, and insuring guns for all gun owners and users.
Anonymous wrote:Why is he doing this? We are complying with the constitution? I thought SCOTUS wanted states to decide these issues. How can Hogan do this unilaterally? I am already so scared about gun violence in this area.
https://wjla.com/news/local/maryland-gun-laws-md-state-police-governor-larry-hogan-permit-wear-carry-weapon-supreme-court-ruling-new-york-law-provisions-standards-handgun
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can I see a list of CCP requirements in MD?
He just invited the super majority Dems in the MD legislature to create all sorts of new requirements for the CCP license, like mental health screenings.
So the state can spend a much of money losing before SCOTUS and creating even worse precedent for gun restriction laws? Great plan. With liberals like you, who needs conservatives![]()
Oh, a mental health screening is a bridge-too-far for someone to carry a firearm in public?
Sorry, but the vast majority of Americans disagree with you.
Read again, more carefully this time.
I saw what was written. Better to keep the guns off the street then let people start carrying willy-nilly around MD. It takes a loooooooooong time for this stuff to get to the SC.
This has nothing to do with my opinion about what gun restrictions should exist and everything to do with the fact this SCOTUS is going to create precedent that undermines gun regulation. You don’t ask a SCOTUS you know disagrees with you to keep talking.
Anonymous wrote:
Democrats have been given the chance of a lifetime to engage centrists who want reasonable, not murderous, abortion laws, and who want reasonable, not murderous, gun laws.
PLEASE USE IT. We need to keep the house and senate!!!