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Support for Shall Issue Legislation in Maryland
By: Josh Ives on Feb 15, 2008
Petition
As citizens of, and those employed in, the state of Maryland we would like to
formally request that Maryland alter it's gun laws such that any upstanding
citizen will be issued a concealed firearm permit unless the governing body
responsible for licensure can find a good and substantial reason that an
individual should not be issued a license.
The current law which states a person must have a good and substantial reason
to need a license is discriminatory against average citizens, given that it
provides means for those who own their own businesses or deal regularly in
large amounts of cash to obtain a license but does not allow the average
working citizen to do so.
In addition to being discriminatory, laws such as those currently in place in
Maryland have never proven to have a positive impact on violent crime and
have in fact been shown in some cases to negatively impact it. As supporting
evidence, we present this data compiled from the FBI's publicly available crime
statistics pages:
Click here to participate in the petition for Maryland Residents.
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