Muleskinner
Ultimate Member
I hate how these go because I feel like some judges ask questions crafted to go down a useless rabbit hole. The questions do nothing but take time away from the testimony. I feel like they should go back and forth for a month, and they should let them.
In my opinion (and many others as well) everything that any pro gun group in Md has been wasted down a useless rabbit hole. I still have the little stickers we handed out back in 1988 trying to defeat the gun ban which formed the infamous "handgun roster". We worked our asses off collecting signatures and trying to inform people about their rights and how the new law would infringe on them...They didn't care..they voted for the law anyway...
And now I see good men and women beating their heads into brick walls (figuratively) with petitions, letter writing, emails, rallies and attending committee hearings on bills that will never see the light of day. Even if this law gets overturned and the 20 round capacity mags are reinstated it's only a tiny victory and only a matter of time before the gun grabbers find another way to remove our rights...maybe by limiting the amount of ammo you can have? Or limiting your "privilege" in this state to buy ammo to once a year and only a small number of boxes? They WILL find a way...Hogan will not be governor forever and it's a pretty good bet that the next one will be a liberal democrat...
Nothing works...I know first hand how the liberal anti gun mentality works...being married to one for several years taught me a lot..the more you fight, the louder the tantrum they throw...the harder they dig in their heels...short of getting the states illegal, unconstitutional gun laws before the Supreme Court of the United States you have no chance...no chance of removing SB281, no chance of EVER getting a definition for GOOD AND SUBSTANTIAL and no chance of a SHALL ISSUE...period...Should you give up? Well ask yourself this...if this was a fight that was winnable...even in the long (very long) run the NRA would be throwing money at this issue like crazy...where have they been? They send up a rep or two to speak at the committee hearings and then they go back to their castle in Fairfax and forget about us for another year...And I know what you are thinking..."if we can't change the liberal's minds, we can change the delegate....in theory you're right...at least you were right until Owe Malley and his minions redrew and gerrymandered the election district map in 2010...Even if you were successful in removing one liberal from office, Chances are another would win the seat...We can't recall them, we can't defeat them in an election, and we cannot gather signatures to place a proposition on the ballot...in short the Democrats have stacked the deck..