WESTMD
Member 2006
We went to Annapolis yesterday! What a day! Here is the report. Myself and one of my coworkers and 3 of his friends rode the bus from Allegheny County. We left at 7:00 AM from LaVale. I think we arrived between 9:30 and 10:00 (I was too excited to look at the time) and they left us off in front of the State House and Lawyers Square. There was probably about 800-1000 people already there. We went to the Senate building to get in line to testify against the O'Malley Gun Ban Bill and we got separated from my coworker and his friends but I did find Chuck (one of my coworkers friends) and we got in line to sign up to testify. After an hour in line we had only made it to the first landing of the Miller Senate building stairs when I think a fellow from MSI told us we could do more good by going to the Senate Judicial Committee members offices and registering our opposition to the bill. So we got a list from him of the committee members and their office numbers and we took off to voice our opposition. We almost went to every committee member in the Jame Senate office building but we got side tracked by our own Senator George Edwards. We stopped by his office and his secretary told us he was not there but he would be back soon so we stayed to talk to him. After meeting with George we saw the rally outside was in full swing so we took off to join the people outside. We went up the stairs to the State House so we could see and hear what was going on. WOW that is when I realized there must of been at least 2-3 thousand people there! All in all a great but long day. We could not get back in to the Senate building because it was shut down because of the Fire Marshall (or maybe O'Malley) but we stayed until 5:00 PM and held up my "DO NOT TREAD ON ME" banner in Lawyers Square. Then at 5:00 PM the bus pulled out to head home. This is just a condensed version of all the things that happened yesterday. I almost left out that we were interviewed by a radio station and asked why we were opposed to the bill and "What would you do to control gun violence in MD", and I am not so sure we actually made it on air. I am so happy that I at least did what I could to help out our cause! Would be interesting to know how many other people made the trip from GC?