Opinion
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said Maryland gun owners have every right to oppose new gun control legislation, MD Senate Bill 488, being pushed as the new solution to violent crime, because all it does is penalize the wrong people.
“The claims by proponents of the Gun Industry Accountability Act, including Gov. Wes Moore, that this legislation will prevent criminals from committing crimes border on the preposterous,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Also, the notion that creating a Center for Firearm Violence Prevention will do anything besides build another bureaucracy is, at best, wishful thinking.”
Gottlieb said holding firearms manufacturers and dealers responsible for crimes committed by criminals, who are frequently already prohibited by law from having guns because of past convictions, is “definitely the wrong approach.”
He noted that Maryland reportedly ranks eighth in the country for gun law strength, but in 2022, it was 14th out of 50 states for the number of homicides, with more than 500 slayings, according to Statista.com. The veteran gun rights advocate has championed efforts such as Three Strikes and Hard Time for Armed Crime, which focus on criminals, instead of law-abiding gun owners, retailers and manufacturers.
“This new legislation creates the illusion that something is being done about violent crime involving guns,” he stated. “Instead, it merely shifts the blame away from the criminal and onto the shoulders of those in the firearms industry, and ultimately the honest Free State gun owners, who haven’t harmed anyone. There’s nothing fair, productive or morally right about that philosophy.
“It’s time for Wes Moore and his fellow Democrats to stop using gun owners and gun makers as scapegoats for their inability to prevent crimes, and their reluctance to harshly punish the people committing those violent crimes,” Gottlieb added.
“It is already illegal for people, especially students, to have guns at schools,” he observed. “It’s already illegal to shoot people, commit armed robberies or carjackings, and carry guns without a permit, yet the criminal element in Maryland keeps doing those things with impunity. Passing laws that punish the wrong people is a failed strategy, and it’s time to try something else.”
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
a vast majority of the “violence crime” is drug and gang related. a huge majority of crime is committed by a very small number of people in very few locations across America. if the judicial system, police, attorneys and judges would focus their effort on those people there wouldn’t be a “violence crime” problem. stop making plea deals, giving bail to violent felons and use capital punishment more. do the progs blame cars and all drivers for vehicular deaths? do progs blame doctors and all medical professionals for overdoses of drugs? why blame law-abiding citizens for criminal activity? there is… Read more »
Maryland is controlled by Baltimore’s black liberals. Reasoning with them about gun rights is pointless. Baltimore is where the first “white flight” was triggered some 65 years ago, Although, other cities eventually did the same, the Baltimore instance remains unique in regard that such large numbers of established residents left a US city so quickly.
Another racist dumbfuc.
Go back to you democrat party friends.
WE DON’T WANT PEOPLE LIKE THIS HERE.
in my almost 79 years I have never seen a gun shoot anything by it’s self
So the gun pulls it’s own trigger? Never seen that happen. Tired of being penalized for the actions of other people. One man ran down a bunch of people in a parade last year of a couple of years ago. Are we outlawing that car now because of it? In fact, a car that was being driven automatically with GPS rather than the driver controlling it was in an accident and it is not only still allowed, they are promoting it. Have you seen the GMC commercial where they say you can put your truck on auto pilot while towing… Read more »
Legislators consider gun owners to be criminals, so , see they are working on cleaning up the crime wave all of the time…………………/sarc
This is, of course, the well known tactic of “Doing something” while accomplishing nothing at all related to the problem at hand. The politicians bread and butter. “Look, see these shiny new gun laws I passed? Aren’t they awesome?”
Always at the heart of Marxocrat driven legislation, is the purpose
of diminishing the citizenry, into subjugated masses, languishing
in a communist shit-hole utopia.
Disarmament and censorship are the weapons of control.
Hopefully, it has been noticed, this election year, the anxiety
and desperation of the Marxocrats seems to be pushing them
into a war footing.