Big Brother. That's what is going on in Baltimore. A video camera that picked up a gun. There was no crime committed.
This is unfortunate.
The information (click here) is not intended as legal advice or a restatement of law and does not include: restrictions that may be placed on non-resident permits, individuals under the age of 21, qualifying permit classes, and/or any other factor which may limit reciprocity and/or recognition. For any particular situation, a licensed local attorney must be consulted for an accurate interpretation. YOU MUST ABIDE WITH ALL LAWS: STATE, FEDERAL AND LOCAL.
What is the rational in Baltimore to confiscate guns? I know if this was Arizona and cows there would be no end to the anger over removing guns.
Maryland is being sued by other states over it's strict gun laws. They don't look strict to me. They look reasonable. What business is Maryland Gun Laws to West Virginia? Political? Got a point to prove regarding how weak state's rights are? It makes no sense for any state to sue another over gun regulations.
November 21, 2015
Led by West Virginia's attorney general, (click here) 21 states have joined a legal effort seeking to overturn Maryland's tough new gun control law.
The Maryland statute has no effect on gun laws in their states, but the attorneys general argue in an amicus brief filed this month that Maryland's law was written too broadly and violates the Second Amendment rights of their citizens.
"States must band together in times when they see citizens' rights being diminished or infringed upon," West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said in statement released when he filed the brief. "If the courts decide this law passes muster, it would undermine a core part of the Second Amendment."
Morrisey, who declined to be interviewed, said Maryland's ban on the sale of military-style weapons is akin to "trying to impose a content-based ban on speech. It simply cannot be done."
A federal court ruled that Maryland's ban on 45 types of semiautomatic rifles is constitutional. The coalition of gun owners and gun-rights groups that challenged the law is appealing the decision by the U.S. District Court of Maryland. The attorneys general have joined that effort....
...Maryland's gun law, proposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley and passed by the General Assembly in 2013, was among the most stringent enacted after the massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. It is one of three, all passed after Newtown, that gun-rights activists are fighting in federal courts.
Judge Catherine C. Blake upheld Maryland's ban in August, rejecting the argument that military-style weapons are in common use for self-defense and therefore protected by the Second Amendment. Blake wrote that she considered the ban a legitimate way to improve public safety....
Community leaders need to hold Town Halls with the people of their neighborhoods. There is a compliant NPR (click here) wrote about and the lack of communication with young people and their leaders.
But, people in Baltimore cannot simply go back to living life as it was before, Baltimore is different today. People have to own guns legally in Baltimore. I don't really appreciate the idea street cameras are causing arrests in the neighborhood that normally wouldn't happen. I think this is a reality we all were concerned about and now we are there. Big Brother is patrolling the streets in Baltimore around the clock every day of the year.
I haven't found special gun laws in Baltimore anywhere on the net, but, there needs to be equity in the way summons and arrests are handed down.
I think the police have a right to be concerned for their safety, but, there is a limit to what people have to put up with, they aren't rats in a cage.
I also witnessed a very good newspaper and media presence in Baltimore. I believe they have high moral content and understand the community.
That said, if men are arrested on a regular basis because of cameras that record their every move they become hopeless. Once a record for illegal possession of a gun is attached to one's name, the ability of a man to qualify for a job is out the window. This is part of the problem in Baltimore. Okay? There is a high degree of hopelessness with 50% unemployment. The unemployment is partly due to criminal records these men have accumulated for whatever reason that occurred.
I don't expect the police to put their lives on the line for freedom in a troubled neighborhood, but, police have to also realize the one reason men in these neighborhoods can be dangerous to themselves and police is because they are not presented with opportunity in the world. I have never, ever heard of a city with 50% unemployment. The city has to take responsibility for that level of unemployment and disseminate the causes while invoking realistic rehab programs.
I can't tell you how this is very troubling to me. Baltimore's unemployment rate is a national emergency. There needs to be projects TODAY to assist the men back into function.
There was a time in my life, after my husband became involved with substance abuse and alternate lifestyles (he was a white man) I was alone and unable to provide an income for myself and my two very young sons. It is devastating to look at yourself in the mirror and feel valueless in society except the ability to be a parent. I didn't have a criminal record. I lived a clean life.
But, my circumstances is not the point. What WORKED for me was to attend the local Vocational School for Adults and learn skills that would provide a job upon graduation. It took 11 and a half months to graduate. During that time, my sons received childcare after school and I received a daily stipend of $10.00 for every day I was in classes and achieving my new lifestyle. My tuition was paid and I was provided a clothing allowance to obtain an appearance suitable for my CHOSEN profession.
THAT IS WHAT THESE NEIGHBORHOODS NEED in Baltimore. The men need to learn skills and capture a craft like carpentry or masonry and then rebuild their neighborhoods. They need this. This is not an option.
Currently, in order to provide a safer street the Baltimore police intervene on camera footage. The men are defining their masculinity with guns. Their idea for their lives is not a long term goal. They are deprived of a life of value that will see them into their old age.
The confrontation between the men and the police will continue and the high tensions that brought about depersonalization of these people to regard them as nothing more than animals is so unhealthy for the city and it's goverrnment there is no word to describe it.
An immediate intervention in the case of men with guns is for the city to institute a "Gun Buy Back" initiative. It is the best way I know to bring about safer streets and reduce criminal content from a citizen's life.
This is not a productive city. The moral content is very poor and hopelessness defines it's very borders.
This is unfortunate.
The information (click here) is not intended as legal advice or a restatement of law and does not include: restrictions that may be placed on non-resident permits, individuals under the age of 21, qualifying permit classes, and/or any other factor which may limit reciprocity and/or recognition. For any particular situation, a licensed local attorney must be consulted for an accurate interpretation. YOU MUST ABIDE WITH ALL LAWS: STATE, FEDERAL AND LOCAL.
What is the rational in Baltimore to confiscate guns? I know if this was Arizona and cows there would be no end to the anger over removing guns.
Maryland is being sued by other states over it's strict gun laws. They don't look strict to me. They look reasonable. What business is Maryland Gun Laws to West Virginia? Political? Got a point to prove regarding how weak state's rights are? It makes no sense for any state to sue another over gun regulations.
November 21, 2015
Led by West Virginia's attorney general, (click here) 21 states have joined a legal effort seeking to overturn Maryland's tough new gun control law.
The Maryland statute has no effect on gun laws in their states, but the attorneys general argue in an amicus brief filed this month that Maryland's law was written too broadly and violates the Second Amendment rights of their citizens.
"States must band together in times when they see citizens' rights being diminished or infringed upon," West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said in statement released when he filed the brief. "If the courts decide this law passes muster, it would undermine a core part of the Second Amendment."
Morrisey, who declined to be interviewed, said Maryland's ban on the sale of military-style weapons is akin to "trying to impose a content-based ban on speech. It simply cannot be done."
A federal court ruled that Maryland's ban on 45 types of semiautomatic rifles is constitutional. The coalition of gun owners and gun-rights groups that challenged the law is appealing the decision by the U.S. District Court of Maryland. The attorneys general have joined that effort....
...Maryland's gun law, proposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley and passed by the General Assembly in 2013, was among the most stringent enacted after the massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. It is one of three, all passed after Newtown, that gun-rights activists are fighting in federal courts.
Judge Catherine C. Blake upheld Maryland's ban in August, rejecting the argument that military-style weapons are in common use for self-defense and therefore protected by the Second Amendment. Blake wrote that she considered the ban a legitimate way to improve public safety....
Community leaders need to hold Town Halls with the people of their neighborhoods. There is a compliant NPR (click here) wrote about and the lack of communication with young people and their leaders.
But, people in Baltimore cannot simply go back to living life as it was before, Baltimore is different today. People have to own guns legally in Baltimore. I don't really appreciate the idea street cameras are causing arrests in the neighborhood that normally wouldn't happen. I think this is a reality we all were concerned about and now we are there. Big Brother is patrolling the streets in Baltimore around the clock every day of the year.
I haven't found special gun laws in Baltimore anywhere on the net, but, there needs to be equity in the way summons and arrests are handed down.
I think the police have a right to be concerned for their safety, but, there is a limit to what people have to put up with, they aren't rats in a cage.
I also witnessed a very good newspaper and media presence in Baltimore. I believe they have high moral content and understand the community.
That said, if men are arrested on a regular basis because of cameras that record their every move they become hopeless. Once a record for illegal possession of a gun is attached to one's name, the ability of a man to qualify for a job is out the window. This is part of the problem in Baltimore. Okay? There is a high degree of hopelessness with 50% unemployment. The unemployment is partly due to criminal records these men have accumulated for whatever reason that occurred.
I don't expect the police to put their lives on the line for freedom in a troubled neighborhood, but, police have to also realize the one reason men in these neighborhoods can be dangerous to themselves and police is because they are not presented with opportunity in the world. I have never, ever heard of a city with 50% unemployment. The city has to take responsibility for that level of unemployment and disseminate the causes while invoking realistic rehab programs.
I can't tell you how this is very troubling to me. Baltimore's unemployment rate is a national emergency. There needs to be projects TODAY to assist the men back into function.
There was a time in my life, after my husband became involved with substance abuse and alternate lifestyles (he was a white man) I was alone and unable to provide an income for myself and my two very young sons. It is devastating to look at yourself in the mirror and feel valueless in society except the ability to be a parent. I didn't have a criminal record. I lived a clean life.
But, my circumstances is not the point. What WORKED for me was to attend the local Vocational School for Adults and learn skills that would provide a job upon graduation. It took 11 and a half months to graduate. During that time, my sons received childcare after school and I received a daily stipend of $10.00 for every day I was in classes and achieving my new lifestyle. My tuition was paid and I was provided a clothing allowance to obtain an appearance suitable for my CHOSEN profession.
THAT IS WHAT THESE NEIGHBORHOODS NEED in Baltimore. The men need to learn skills and capture a craft like carpentry or masonry and then rebuild their neighborhoods. They need this. This is not an option.
Currently, in order to provide a safer street the Baltimore police intervene on camera footage. The men are defining their masculinity with guns. Their idea for their lives is not a long term goal. They are deprived of a life of value that will see them into their old age.
The confrontation between the men and the police will continue and the high tensions that brought about depersonalization of these people to regard them as nothing more than animals is so unhealthy for the city and it's goverrnment there is no word to describe it.
An immediate intervention in the case of men with guns is for the city to institute a "Gun Buy Back" initiative. It is the best way I know to bring about safer streets and reduce criminal content from a citizen's life.
This is not a productive city. The moral content is very poor and hopelessness defines it's very borders.
