gun control
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No one law will destroy the Second Amendment, but the cumulative effect will rob us of our guns — and freedom. - Baltimore County police Chief James W. Johnson, along with other law enforcement leaders, will meet in Washington Wednesday to ask Congress to approve stricter gun laws.
- A Laurel man who unsuccessfully attempted to carjack a North Laurel pastor at gunpoint, after police say the pastor grabbed his gun, pleaded guilty in Howard County Circuit Court on Tuesday, according to State's attorney spokesman Wayne Kirwan.
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- Key provisions of Gov. Martin O'Malley's sweeping gun-control plan face renewed battles in the Maryland Senate next week, while the House of Delegates launches hearings expected to be just as contentious as those that brought thousands of people to Annapolis this month.
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- The General Assembly took an important step toward repealing Maryland's death penalty Thursday night when the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee approved Gov. Martin O'Malley's bill to end capital punishment.
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- University of Maryland, College Park president Wallace Loh has endorsed legislative efforts to limit gun ownership, following an apparent murder-suicide this month involving students.
- O'Malley now sees the wisdom in tougher restrictions on gun sales to mentally ill people
- Protecting the victims of gun violence requires mental health background checks for firearms sales and keeping violent offenders behind bars
- But manufacturing laws that places the 2nd Amendment into a box of useless, draconian gun control measures is a path that will backfire and cause a reaction that is both unwarranted and dangerous to our freedoms
- Sensible restrictions on gun purchases like background checks are necessary and welcome
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- Gun owners should be required to carry liability insurance on their weapons
- In protecting colleges from deranged students, the first step is to limit access to guns
- Reasonable gun control proposals like licensing seem no more restrictive than the regulations facing nurses and many other professions
- Jonah Goldberg says President Obama mistakenly thinks the public agrees with his liberal priorities.
- State of the Union plea for Congress to act on gun control strikes a chord with most Americans
- In certain situations, large capacity ammunition magazines are necessary
- Gun laws should focus on the person who pulls the trigger
- Efforts in Maryland to restrict legal firearms purchases must be opposed
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- Maryland needs tougher penalties for gun crimes, not gun control.
- Howard County has maintained a AAA bond rating from agencies Standard & Poors, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings since the mid 1990s, but if Moody's downgrades the federal government's debt to AA-plus, Howard County could follow.
- Perhaps some facts would help us understand how truly vacuous and meaningless our president's recent theatrical performance on gun control, complete with a wallpaper of children behind him, was. Equally impressive was our governor's performance in which he claimed that the Newtown tragedy demonstrated the need for Obamacare is needed! The political grandstanding of our politicians is shameful.
- The government is pursuing unconstitutional and liberty-killing violations.
- President Barack Obama used the first State of the Union address of his second term to try to breathe new life into his economic agenda, reviving modest measures to spur growth and trying to create fresh momentum in the all-but-stagnant talks over deficit reduction.
- I am a strong supporter of 2nd amendment rights and have been following the recent debates. In my opinion, there should be a reasonable middle ground that would protect 2nd amendment rights and provide a safer environment for all Americans.
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