2aguy
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The Republican Governor of Maryland is trying to stop gun violence in Baltimore....a city run by the democrat party since 1961
And the democrat party keeps blocking his attempts to stop gun crime.......
Maryland once again tries to pass stricter gun violence laws over Democrats' objections
The measures would provide stiffer sentencing guidelines for first-time offenders in gun crimes and much tougher penalties for recidivism. Unfortunately, every time they’ve tried this in the past they have been defeated (ironically) by Democrats from the Baltimore area. (Baltimore Sun)
Despite weeks of hostility, a Maryland Senate committee late Wednesday advanced three anti-crime bills, including one that contains large portions of Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s top legislative priority ― the Violent Firearms Offenders Act.
The Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee, chaired by Democratic Montgomery County Sen. William C. Smith Jr., passed a raft of tougher penalties for gun offenders in the legislation but only after voting to strip the bill of its six mandatory minimum sentences.
Democrats on the committee opposed such sentencing restrictions because they remove discretion from judges to decide each sentence on its merits.
As you can see from the excerpt above, they couldn’t even get these modest measures out of committee without stripping out mandatory minimum sentences for serious incidents of gun violence. And even then, it wasn’t unanimous. One senator (from Baltimore, of course) still voted against the set of bills, describing them as the “same old tough-on-crime mentality.”
And the democrat party keeps blocking his attempts to stop gun crime.......
Maryland once again tries to pass stricter gun violence laws over Democrats' objections
The measures would provide stiffer sentencing guidelines for first-time offenders in gun crimes and much tougher penalties for recidivism. Unfortunately, every time they’ve tried this in the past they have been defeated (ironically) by Democrats from the Baltimore area. (Baltimore Sun)
Despite weeks of hostility, a Maryland Senate committee late Wednesday advanced three anti-crime bills, including one that contains large portions of Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s top legislative priority ― the Violent Firearms Offenders Act.
The Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee, chaired by Democratic Montgomery County Sen. William C. Smith Jr., passed a raft of tougher penalties for gun offenders in the legislation but only after voting to strip the bill of its six mandatory minimum sentences.
Democrats on the committee opposed such sentencing restrictions because they remove discretion from judges to decide each sentence on its merits.
As you can see from the excerpt above, they couldn’t even get these modest measures out of committee without stripping out mandatory minimum sentences for serious incidents of gun violence. And even then, it wasn’t unanimous. One senator (from Baltimore, of course) still voted against the set of bills, describing them as the “same old tough-on-crime mentality.”
