A Baltimore City Council committee has approved Mayor Sheila Dixon's proposal for a public gun crime registry -- similar to sex offender registries....
Gun offenders who fail to register could face jail time.
The term "gun offenders," of course, includes those who are caught with the means of defense on hand because they fear for their lives. As for those who commit violent crimes, one can only wonder why most of them are living among us in the first place, and how many of the remainder are already registered with parole officers...
And, of course, no murders will be prevented. And of those that are solved, how many does anyone honestly think will be because of this stupid list?
But it gets herhonor's name in the paper, and she can brag to her willing dupes in "the community" how she's protecting them. This is just another small step in the agenda of portraying all gun owners as seedy, as perverse, as less than righteous human beings, as...vermin.
With a nod to the post above this one, Maryland first required concealed carry permits, then after a long stretch, permits for any kind of carry, and finally, the government, having wedged itself between seller and buyer used its power to deny sales of certain weapons. In effect, they banned a particular class of firearms by not allowing them to be sold legally in the state.
ReplyDeleteThis course of events in not unique. In fact, Maryland has been slower to disarm its citizens than other states. However, one thing all of them have in common is that none of these restrictions had any effect on crime rates.
Maryland is a may-issue state. That basically means your "rights" are subject to the opinion of a distant stranger who does not possess enough information to ever make a proper judgement.