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  • Uncle Duke

    Ultimate Member
    MDS Supporter
    Feb 2, 2013
    11,667
    Not Far Enough from the City
    I respect your efforts, and once believed in that process as well, though I now firmly believe you're wasting your time.

    I think the point has been reached where, given the Democrat emphasis on police standdowns, defunding police, and catch and release policies for violent criminals? Given rampant violent crime to include ever increasing carjackings, shootings, robbery and murder? Prison releases and fewer prosecutions being touted as "progress"?

    Their form of progress is all over the Maryland and the national news. Even the spin doesn't countermand the obvious anymore. Where it regards personal safety, we are clearly on our own.

    I think the message now needs to be that everything they do is a blatant slap in the face to the public, and to the safety of the public they are sworn to serve. As such, they can go ahead and legislate whatever the hell they want. They're going to do that anyway. Exactly that.

    Legislate to your hearts content.
     

    rbird7282

    Ultimate Member
    MDS Supporter
    Dec 6, 2012
    18,536
    Columbia
    I don’t expect my one email to make a difference, but I’m trying to get other liberals to do the same. It’s almost certainly a futile exercise, but only took a few minutes and I will follow through with voting for the “republican” running against him and lobbying my new gun owning liberal neighbors to do the same. 6th was Republican from 1993-2013. Need Frederick to turn out in big numbers too.


    Instead of writing the guy you voted for, you could try not voting for liberal gun grabbers in the first place.


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    Bikebreath

    R.I.P.
    MDS Supporter
    Jun 30, 2009
    14,836
    in the bowels of Baltimore
    In case I haven’t already outed myself as a moderate/centrist liberal (on the path to libertarian lately) here I’ll add my support to this as well. We tend to be a quiet bunch, but these days I feel more free to express honest views with my conservative friends and family than those to my left. Speaking for myself I’m very selective about who I’ll talk guns with, and when you live in a MoCo cul de sac you get really good about sneaking your range gear to the car. So I think this makes a lot of Democratic leaning gun owners who do truly support 2A afraid to speak up. Based on private conversations I’ve had with people and lurking on certain reddit threads, there’s an explosion in support for gun rights on the left which means it had the potential to become a non/bi-partisan issue. But of course with our two party system if an issue is embraced by one side the other side has to go hard in the other direction. Not saying I’m optimistic about the Democratic establishment changing its extremely misguided (if I’m charitable) position, but it’s worth it to make sure our reps know that we support our right to self-defense. Honestly not sure where to start and I haven’t joined MSI yet, but seems like Mike has started on the right path. I also think it’s a good idea for any MD 2A organization to be open to support from all partisan backgrounds.

    Dude!

    Today, ok? https://www.marylandshallissue.org/jmain/index.php
     

    Blacksmith101

    Grumpy Old Man
    Jun 22, 2012
    22,156
    And you can bet that one of the first things Trone and the democrats will do at the start of the next session will be to vote to over ride the governors veto of the universal background check bill. One more infringement, you won't be able to sell your brother a shotgun without going to an FFL or the state police for a transfer. Then they will try to ram through a LGQL (long gun qualification license) with training, fingerprints, thirty day wait, and ID card before those transfers can happen. Time to make a choice; Do you want to be a liberal progressive or do you want to own guns?

    That’s why I was proud to work with my colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass H.R. 8, a bill to require a background check for every firearm sale that would help keep people with a history of violence, mental illness, and domestic abuse from accessing guns.
     

    Car

    Member
    Apr 3, 2020
    22
    Really??

    “Boss,

    I do not support your decision giving me 0% raise this year. I would urge you to give me 20% raise asap; otherwise I would hate to do it, but go home today and cry.

    Thank you for ...”

    For how long would you laugh if you received something like this? Sounds ridiculous? Because it is.

    Nothing personal, just some exaggeration to make a point
     

    BigT

    Large Member
    Dec 20, 2011
    285
    Hagerstown area
    Honest Question here...

    the work that you have done on behalf of Maryland residents in your District.”

    Not trying to derail your post, and I am asking a sincere question.. What exactly has he done for the 6th? I have attended his local (Hagerstown area) sessions and been on his group calls, get his emails, basically try to listen to this guy - all he ever does is criticize Trump and the right. I get he is a junior congressman, but what has he done? What am I missing? I routinely contact his office, and both of our Senators, concerning Veteran's issues. Senator Van Hollen is the only one who even acknowledges my communications. I'm not asking you to justify your support for him, and am not trying to criticize your support of him, I just seem to have missed what he's done for the 6th.

    6th was Republican from 1993-2013. Need Frederick to turn out in big numbers too.
    District 6 was re-drawn by that clown O'malley after the 2010 census - those of us actually in Western MD basically lost our representation when that clown gerrymandered the bulk of the population (a very left leaning population) from the old district 8 into the "new" district 6. Can anyone tell us if Trone ever lived in District 6? I saw that prior to getting elected he listed Cheverly as his home.. (I don't believe his opponent - Amie Hoeber - lived in 6 either) This is typical in Maryland, and a result of being one of the most gerrymandered states. He may be my Representative, but he certainly does not share any of my values, nor those of most of his district - beyond the Moco portion. Without the gerrymandering - the old District 6 was solidly right, but it will be solidly left from here out..
     

    JamesDong

    Banned
    BANNED!!!
    Aug 13, 2020
    3,260
    Duffield, Va
    From David Trone’s ReElection Site

    ‘Most of the mass shootings our country has suffered have been young people who have been able to purchase military-style assault weapons. These are weapons of war, and they must be banned. I also favor banning so called ‘bump stocks’ that turn semi-automatic weapons into automatic weapons, like the one used by the deranged shooter in Las Vegas.”

    He’s not changing his vote Sir it’s up to you.

    Most often ones wallet trumps freedom.:sad20:
     

    cmb

    Active Member
    Dec 28, 2012
    499
    Conowingo MD
    I’m almost certain it will be ignored, but I am encouraging my other democratic friends to do the same, only took 5 minutes.

    “Rep. Trone,

    I am a liberal/progressive in your district who voted for you in 2018. I, along with many other liberals in your District, do not support the majority of “gun safety” policies that you, and the Democratic party as a whole, are proposing. Arbitrarily designating certain rifles as “assault weapons” and pledging to ban them will not make us safer and is an unnecessary infringement of a constitutional right. The same applies to arbitrary 10 round magazine capacity limits. Neither of these are “common sense” gun reforms, they are senseless restrictions that only affect lawful gun owners. I would hate voting for your Republican challenger, but I will not support a candidate who is willing to infringe on fundamental constitutional rights just to pass feel good legislation that will not in any meaningful way address gun violence in this country. I would urge you to move more towards the center on Second Amendment issues. Look at the NICS data and news coverage, a large number of recent firearms purchases have been from Democrats who purchased their first firearm. In Maryland many of these Democrats purchased a semiautomatic rifle that would be classified as an assault weapon under the Democratic proposals due to the fact that they were unable to obtain a HQL during the pandemic closure to enable them to purchase a handgun.

    Thank you for your time and consideration and for the work that you have done on behalf of Maryland residents in your District.”
    Wouldn't it be great if you had a "Democratic" Congressman! There's very little that's Democratic about the Democrat Party.
     

    bigmancrisler

    2A Preacher
    Jun 4, 2020
    1,263
    Martinsburg, WV
    In case I haven’t already outed myself as a moderate/centrist liberal (on the path to libertarian lately) here I’ll add my support to this as well. We tend to be a quiet bunch, but these days I feel more free to express honest views with my conservative friends and family than those to my left. Speaking for myself I’m very selective about who I’ll talk guns with, and when you live in a MoCo cul de sac you get really good about sneaking your range gear to the car. So I think this makes a lot of Democratic leaning gun owners who do truly support 2A afraid to speak up. Based on private conversations I’ve had with people and lurking on certain reddit threads, there’s an explosion in support for gun rights on the left which means it had the potential to become a non/bi-partisan issue. But of course with our two party system if an issue is embraced by one side the other side has to go hard in the other direction. Not saying I’m optimistic about the Democratic establishment changing its extremely misguided (if I’m charitable) position, but it’s worth it to make sure our reps know that we support our right to self-defense. Honestly not sure where to start and I haven’t joined MSI yet, but seems like Mike has started on the right path. I also think it’s a good idea for any MD 2A organization to be open to support from all partisan backgrounds.


    Ya MSI is a bipartisan single issue organization, therefore I would definitely support them (as I am already a member).


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    JerseyMike

    Active Member
    Dec 16, 2019
    437
    Germantown
    Not trying to derail your post, and I am asking a sincere question.. What exactly has he done for the 6th? I have attended his local (Hagerstown area) sessions and been on his group calls, get his emails, basically try to listen to this guy - all he ever does is criticize Trump and the right. I get he is a junior congressman, but what has he done? What am I missing? I routinely contact his office, and both of our Senators, concerning Veteran's issues. Senator Van Hollen is the only one who even acknowledges my communications. I'm not asking you to justify your support for him, and am not trying to criticize your support of him, I just seem to have missed what he's done for the 6th.


    District 6 was re-drawn by that clown O'malley after the 2010 census - those of us actually in Western MD basically lost our representation when that clown gerrymandered the bulk of the population (a very left leaning population) from the old district 8 into the "new" district 6. Can anyone tell us if Trone ever lived in District 6? I saw that prior to getting elected he listed Cheverly as his home.. (I don't believe his opponent - Amie Hoeber - lived in 6 either) This is typical in Maryland, and a result of being one of the most gerrymandered states. He may be my Representative, but he certainly does not share any of my values, nor those of most of his district - beyond the Moco portion. Without the gerrymandering - the old District 6 was solidly right, but it will be solidly left from here out..

    I voted for Aruna Miller in the primary but Trone (grudgingly) in the general just because, after Trump, I wasn’t voting for any R at midterms.

    I added the last sentence to be polite, I actually despise him and will vote R for the 6th this cycle (even though the candidate is a Trumper). I still don’t know who I’ll vote for in the pres (I know it won’t be Trump) or in the other offices on the ballot.

    Candidates like Trump and these Q-anon supporters make it really difficult for anyone who leans left to cast a R vote, and the “new” Republican party under Trump doesn’t have much, if anything, that I support politically. I could vote for Rs like Kaisch, Romney, McCain, Huntsman, Weld, Flake, Boehner, etc. This is a dying breed. While the democrats have a split between the moderate and progressive wings Republicans have (excluding a limited # of outliers) gone all in on Trump.

    2018 into 2019 I did a 180 on 2A rights and now consider that to be high up on the list of priorities, but I align with the progressive wing of the democrats on most other issues (climate, abortion, taxes, immigration, foreign policy, criminal justice reforms).

    I’ll continue to use my (extremely limited) voice to push the dems away from their current 2A platform, but would love the opportunity to vote for moderate Rs.
     

    bigmancrisler

    2A Preacher
    Jun 4, 2020
    1,263
    Martinsburg, WV
    I don’t expect my one email to make a difference, but I’m trying to get other liberals to do the same. It’s almost certainly a futile exercise, but only took a few minutes and I will follow through with voting for the “republican” running against him and lobbying my new gun owning liberal neighbors to do the same. 6th was Republican from 1993-2013. Need Frederick to turn out in big numbers too.


    The guy running against steny hoyer seems like a great dude (Chris palombi). I’m voting for him in November.


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    Occam

    Not Even ONE Indictment
    MDS Supporter
    Feb 24, 2018
    20,239
    Montgomery County
    would love the opportunity to vote for moderate Rs.

    What does that actually MEAN, anyway? You'd prefer someone who nominates Supreme Court justices that are less dedicated to the constitution - just moderately interested in preserving it? You'd prefer an administration that only moderately pushes back against Chinese adventurism in the Pacific or rampant intellectual property theft? You'd rather have an administration that only moderately wants a secure border so that only a moderate number of people can walk across it after being repeatedly deported for criminal offenses? Would you prefer an administration that only moderately pushes back against flagrantly politicized use of the federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to spy on political opponents?

    What I've observed is that people who say they "can't vote for an R because of Trump" are mostly just still reliving their shock that their own terrible, corrupt, condescending, elitist political machine candidate lost in 2016 ... or are so maddened by a non-politician's moderate public speaking skills that they can't bring themselves to actually look at what's really been done, even in the face of unprecedented, unhinged opposition at every turn.
     

    gremlin42

    Active Member
    Apr 16, 2020
    696
    variable
    On a slightly more serious note, as someone who’s in Mike’s area, the mainstream liberal fawning over Kamala scares me. She’s been a literal gun-grabber with serious authoritarian tendencies. If anything I can see some on libertarian moderate-left going to Trump just to get away from the possibility of a President Kamala. I also worry that despite being a drug warrior as a prosecutor she’s such an opportunist that she’d likely try to exploit the defund the police movement which is batshit crazy.
     

    JerseyMike

    Active Member
    Dec 16, 2019
    437
    Germantown
    What does that actually MEAN, anyway? You'd prefer someone who nominates Supreme Court justices that are less dedicated to the constitution - just moderately interested in preserving it? You'd prefer an administration that only moderately pushes back against Chinese adventurism in the Pacific or rampant intellectual property theft? You'd rather have an administration that only moderately wants a secure border so that only a moderate number of people can walk across it after being repeatedly deported for criminal offenses? Would you prefer an administration that only moderately pushes back against flagrantly politicized use of the federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to spy on political opponents?

    What I've observed is that people who say they "can't vote for an R because of Trump" are mostly just still reliving their shock that their own terrible, corrupt, condescending, elitist political machine candidate lost in 2016 ... or are so maddened by a non-politician's moderate public speaking skills that they can't bring themselves to actually look at what's really been done, even in the face of unprecedented, unhinged opposition at every turn.

    Moderate, on either side, means more centrist; they are willing to take the prevailing Republican party view and the prevailing Democratic party view, compromise and arrive at a resolution in the center. I don’t want centrist solutions to everything but, when presented a candidate from “my party” (since we have a two party system) that I don’t want to support (for example, due to their extreme and zealous views on gun control) I am more inclined to pick a Republican who will compromise on the other issues that I value.
     

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