Obama finally doing something right.

[Marucha]

I only need to cite Washington DC's and Baltimore's sky high murder rates to prove to you gun control does little to solve the problem. MD makes it extremely difficult to get a hand-carry permit and the culture is such. Personal experience, you can have police called on you just simply for walking from your trunk across the lawn into your own house... just because they're 'scary'.

I grew up in Texas until I was 19, but I lived in MD for almost 8 years. I've seen the difference. People don't walk onto your property just for fun here. In MD, you can get charged with a crime for shooting someone in your own home unless you 'prove intent'. Essentially, you have to ask and continue talking to them until they leave, run into the bedroom and hide if you're in danger and hope they don't kill you before then. Only then can you protect yourself with some faith, but even then the stigma is on the gun owner who will be questioned.

DC had a gun ban up until the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional and it didn't do anything to improve murder rates. People who want to commit crimes will find a way to get them. Even if you don't have guns, there will always be some other weapon that will be created to cause violence...

MD is heavily democratic and both it and DC are already being made more and more like police states with a screwed up system and corrupt officials that keep the political ignorant, which is why we left... I would rather run the minimal risk that I will lose my life in a gun crime than to continue giving up more and more of my rights under the false guise the government will 'protect me'. Not everyone is going to be responsible and you can't stop all crimes, so acting like we must ban everything under the sun to create a false sense of security IMO is not smart...