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State's gun laws put citizens in jeopardy
Josey1
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This is a letter to the Editor;
State's gun laws put citizens in jeopardy
The writer of the letter "On gun policy, it's Ehrlich who lies out on the fringe" (April 7) describes what he terms Maryland's "gun safety" laws as "common sense" and "effective."
If Maryland's gun control laws are as "common sense" and "effective" as the writer claims, perhaps he can explain why Maryland's violent crime rate is two to three times higher than those of the adjoining states of Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Of the states adjoining Maryland, only Delaware has a violent crime rate similar to Maryland's. By a most remarkable coincidence, only Delaware has gun control laws that are similar to Maryland's.
It appears that the net effect of the letter-writer's "common sense" and "effective" gun control laws is that Marylanders can enjoy being robbed, raped and murdered at two to three times the rate of most of our neighbors.
And yet the writer's organization, Marylanders Against Handgun Abuse Inc., seeks even more "common sense" and "effective" gun control laws for Maryland.
In the interest of honesty and full disclosure, the organization might consider changing its name to Marylanders Against Self-Defense Inc., since that title would better describe its real agenda.
Roy Trudel
Ellicott City
http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/letters/bal-ed.le.20ajapr20.story
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
State's gun laws put citizens in jeopardy
The writer of the letter "On gun policy, it's Ehrlich who lies out on the fringe" (April 7) describes what he terms Maryland's "gun safety" laws as "common sense" and "effective."
If Maryland's gun control laws are as "common sense" and "effective" as the writer claims, perhaps he can explain why Maryland's violent crime rate is two to three times higher than those of the adjoining states of Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Of the states adjoining Maryland, only Delaware has a violent crime rate similar to Maryland's. By a most remarkable coincidence, only Delaware has gun control laws that are similar to Maryland's.
It appears that the net effect of the letter-writer's "common sense" and "effective" gun control laws is that Marylanders can enjoy being robbed, raped and murdered at two to three times the rate of most of our neighbors.
And yet the writer's organization, Marylanders Against Handgun Abuse Inc., seeks even more "common sense" and "effective" gun control laws for Maryland.
In the interest of honesty and full disclosure, the organization might consider changing its name to Marylanders Against Self-Defense Inc., since that title would better describe its real agenda.
Roy Trudel
Ellicott City
http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/letters/bal-ed.le.20ajapr20.story
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878