echo6tango
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Hmm...sitting with your family enjoying a Sunday evening bite to eat,maybe catching some of the Super Bowl game on the TV in the bar,when lead starts flying around the place. I couldn't even begin to imagine how incredibly helpless and vulnerable that must feel to look across the table at the faces of your terrified family with nothing more than a fork and dull butter knife at your disposal for defense.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/15209484/detail.html?dl=headlineclick
I may not be the most analytical person in the world, but I would believe that driving down the road, walking in the mall, eating at a restaurant, and simply leaving the confines of one's home is "GOOD AND SUNSTANTIAL REASON." Of course, a shooting at a family eatery is just more reason for Maryland to impose more stringent firearm regulations...like it can get worse here.
In order to legally carry a firearm for self-defense in the State of Maryland, one must prove to the Maryland State Police that the personapplying for a permit"has good and substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun, such as a finding that the permit is necessary as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger."
(that's quoted from Maryland Public Safety Article §5–306 found online at http://mlis.state.md.us/asp/web_statutes.asp?gps&5-306)
Hmm...sitting with your family enjoying a Sunday evening bite to eat,maybe catching some of the Super Bowl game on the TV in the bar,when lead starts flying around the place. I couldn't even begin to imagine how incredibly helpless and vulnerable that must feel to look across the table at the faces of your terrified family with nothing more than a fork and dull butter knife at your disposal for defense.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/15209484/detail.html?dl=headlineclick
I may not be the most analytical person in the world, but I would believe that driving down the road, walking in the mall, eating at a restaurant, and simply leaving the confines of one's home is "GOOD AND SUNSTANTIAL REASON." Of course, a shooting at a family eatery is just more reason for Maryland to impose more stringent firearm regulations...like it can get worse here.
In order to legally carry a firearm for self-defense in the State of Maryland, one must prove to the Maryland State Police that the personapplying for a permit"has good and substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun, such as a finding that the permit is necessary as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger."
(that's quoted from Maryland Public Safety Article §5–306 found online at http://mlis.state.md.us/asp/web_statutes.asp?gps&5-306)
