I'm sure MD Gov't and victim families are well aware of this...
Maryland is home to a staggering amount of gun violence.
• From 2002 to 2011, 6,263 people were killed with guns in Maryland. How many of those are police shootings? suicides who would find another way? Murders that would still be commited by baltimore fire bomb molitov coctails, baseball bats, knives, bricks? going to ban those too?That is more than
the number of all U.S. combat deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. You should go enlist then since it's safer
• Somebody is killed with a gun in Maryland every 16 hours: In 2011 alone, there were
542 gun deaths in the state.2
Yet there were only 2 hundred something (274 i think) MURDERS with guns in 2011. How many of those 542 deaths were self defense? don't you think that's kind of important? How many are justified police shootings? who cares the method, once can find other easy ways of death, pills, exhaust fumes, antifreeze, a razor, a rope, the list goes on.
Domestic violence fatalities are prevalent in Maryland, and they are frequently a result
of gun crime. Frequently eh.. you say frequently, I say minority of the time based on your non cited number which may be false.
• According to the FBI, there were 256 domestic violence homicides in Maryland from
2003 to 2012, which include both male and female victims.
• Of those homicides, almost half of the victims—42.2 percent—were killed with guns.