Its too bad the Maryland State Police don't issue handgun permits unless a person has 'good and sufficient reason.' If citizens had been armed they would have stopped this from happening and the loss of life/casualties sustained would have been a whole lot less than what happened.
Now that there is tons of gun laws in Maryland, the most restrictive in the nation, will the politicians finally admit that gun laws do not prevent incidents like this from happening? Laws do not prevent criminals from carrying out criminal violent acts of violence against a disarmed population. I wish that a citizen who was concealed carrying with a permit would have been able to put an end to this.
Maybe someone in Annapolis will wake up and get some common sense when it comes to what needs to happen in Maryland in reference to gun laws. Banning AK47s and AR15's isn't going to stop incidents like this from happening. The Navy yard shooter and this idiot were both armed with shotguns. In the navy yard incident, the shooter took guns from the security guard. FBI statistics show that 'assault rifles' arent the problem in America. Yet time after time the liberals love to demonize a specific gun type in an attempt to erode 2nd amendment rights.
What all of these incidents have in common is they all occur in gun free zones. They occur in states with the most restrictive gun laws. It makes it easier for someone whos committing violent acts to get away with it, because they only have to worry about police, not an armed citizen stopping them. Im sure Maryland will make more laws. But it wont do anything to stop bad things from happening. It will continue to leave the voters vulnerable, relying on 911 and hoping police are able to stop the threat. Or maybe the voters will smarten up and vote for politicians who will change the laws, so they can legally carry handguns and stop criminals dead in their tracks.
While I support police and I am pro law enforcement, the reality is police are really bad shots. I hope that they have the courage to go and deal with the bad guys. Images of Littleton always are stuck in my head where police hid behind fire trucks while the killing continued. Can you rely on your local police? Do they have machine guns and rifles, firepower superiority to deal with a 'heavily armed shooter?' Perhaps you should ask these questions since its an election year in Maryland, and its likely more restrictive gun laws that don't work will be created in the wake of this tragedy. Sadly, when I see alot of cops in todays world, there are quite a few who are overweight and out of shape. Most don't appear like the types to go in and get the badguys, they run around wearing hats and ties, issuing traffic citations and giving speeches on driving habits to motorists on the side of the road. Youtube and cell cameras neutered their departments long ago, and most of the ones hired now haven't even been in a fist fight or yelled at prior to their academy. I don't have alot of faith in todays law enforcement, they don't have that 'tough john wayne image' that was once held back in the day. The question becomes will kindler gentler law enforcement be able to handle todays more violent sadistic criminals? After all, in Maryland its all you can rely upon until the laws change.
