I would say, that if all of us country folk, and folk that DO care about self defense for honest people, write a letter to the editor, and let it be common knowledge that will not be putting up with it any more. We will vote out anyone that does NOT respect the US constitution.
The rural parts of MD are not the same state as the "4 Urban Counties". The Eastern Shore and Western MD are, for the most part, populated by people who believe in the Constitution, Personal Freedom, and the Rule of Law.
The "4 Urban Counties" are mind-numbingly branwashed zones of unrelenting propaganda, filled with an odd mixture of highly-educated people who are completely devoid of the ability for critical thought or discernment, and oppressed minorities who have been made so dependent on the system that they dare not even consider their own slavery as something that isn't desirable. It is like stepping into Oz, except the flying monkeys wear badges, the Wicked Witch is the Governor, and the Munchkins are all a bunch of brainwashed hipsters and old yuppies, and surrealistically stereotypical caricatures of urban minorities.
Funny thing about MD, it is considerably more rural that urban. There are more gun owners who are law abiding citizens, than thugs.
That may be true for the rural parts of MD, but the majority of the population in MD is concentrated in the "4 Urban Counties" and so they control the polls. Montgomery County has more registered voters than all the rural counties combined. Whatever (or whoever) the 4 Urban Counties vote for becomes political reality in MD. It is a sad, sick state of affairs, and truly a "Mob Rule" scenario that victimizes everyone who is not part of the Ruling Elite.
It needs to be a grass roots move forward, like the few Open Empty Holsters. Maybe sit with a table and hand out flyers at some of the places that LACs anf gun people congregate.
I've been EHOCing every day after I get off work for over 3 weeks all over Montgomery, Howard, Baltimore, and PG Counties. I have not even got a second look, let alone a question or a confrontation. I honestly think that most of the brainwashed zombies here don't know what an empty Serpa is.
I've considered making up some "Your MD Gun Rights" flyers like the ones I made for NC, VA, WV, and PA, but when I considered that for MD it would essentially be a sheet of paper with that phrase on the front, and the rest would be blank, I figured it wasn't worth the copying fees. :banghead:
But if more people want to join me in my EHOC campaign, I'll be glad to do what I can to support it. Perhaps I can write a flyer to let people know what the REAL story is with regards to permits to carry in MD--that Brian Frosh and Babs Mikulski have them--and are ALSO the loudest anti-gun politicians in MD. or that there are fewer "unrestricted" permits issued to regular citizens in the entire state of MD than there are in Fairfax County, VA. Or that the MSP considers defending drugs, money, gold coins, and jewelry a worthwhile reason to carry a firearm, but they DO NOT consider protecting yourself, your family or your children precious enough to warrant a permit...
I don't care what the "gun rights activist groups" in MD say or think. Their track record over the last 20 years speaks for itself. It's time that someone approaches this situation in MD with some creativity, some passion, and some REAL grass-roots activism--NOT just playing the game by the corrupt money-grubbing rules that pervade in Annapolis and Pikesville. It's time to STOP throwing money at the problemin MD and START throwing people at it--LOTS of people--wearing empty holsters, handing out flyers, TALKING to people on the street, on the train, in the malls. It's time to walk away from the rotten, corrupt, putrid stinking cesspool of MD official politics, and engage the PEOPLE.
It's time to educate the PEOPLE that they have been victimize for centuries by their "Rulers", that the MD Government is a den of racist, classist, elitist oligarchical, tyrannical vipers who have perpetrate a 2 1/2 century-old fraud on their populace. It's time to make the PEOPLE aware that Annapolis and Pikesville DO NOT have the best interest of the people in their hearts, and that they are actively colluding to oppress, subjugate, and enslave the good People of this state. It's time to let the People know that their government views them as nothing more than a revenue source, and does NOT consider them to be real humans with rights, but rather sees them as their subjects, with only the "rights" the government grants them.
It's time to take off the gloves, and leave our wallets at home. It's time to start calling out the corruption, lies, and duplicity of MD State Government, and to send the People of MD the Good News that they CAN, in fact, be Free, Safe, and Sovereign like their neighbors to the south, West, and North.
It's time to rock the boat, and stop bribing the boatman, in hope that he might safely take us to the "other side". It's time to grab the oars ourselves, and steer this ship of state in the right direction ourselves--toward Freedom, Liberty, and Self Determination...