Patrick
MSI Executive Member
Awesome about your wife, wish mine was like that. I guess this will eventually go for rifles too?
She told me yesterday she "needs to learn how to use all the guns we have, including those rifles."
She's not "into" guns the way people here are. But she's more than literate and even going so far as to teach her family and friends how to use pistols now. And she would carry in a heartbeat - it would be much easier for her than for me. Shes the kind of person the Brady's are terrified of: a woman recently introduced to firearms and interested in them as simple tools to extend her safety. She is no "gun nut" and won't be crawling the aisles of Joe Bob's Gun Show any day soon. She'll pick her tool, learn to use it well, and leave it at that. Just like a car.
My 'practical' issue with carrying is jurisdictional and sensitive/private places. I routinely go between multiple states and work with a great many entities that would frown upon weapons; and in general I am happy to oblige a request from someone when it comes to their property. It'd be a constant game of on/off. And frankly, most of the places I work are protected to the point a gun on my person would become annoying more than anything else. Not to mention all the flying I do, sometimes going to/from in a single day or afternoon. And frankly, I'm not personally interested in carrying (for no particular reason).
There is a lesson in here for MD lawmakers: it's not just gun-totin' Dirty Harry kind of guys that recognize that the Bill of Rights essentially says one thing: "stay away from my rights." It is not a list of permissions from the government, it is a list of restrictions on the government.
The more people we get like my wife, the easier this will all become.