Traveling to Maryland

[kingpin008]

3) We all get the gov't we deserve, and Fast Eddie Rendell is no better than MOM. Unlike MD/Baltimore (cesspool) we have kept him and Philly (more crackheads in cesspool) in check.

I was originally going to respond to this with harsher language, but I'll simply say this - I'd appreciate it if you'd refrain from calling my home state a cesspool. We are not perfect, but we are not a damned cesspool. That's all I'm going to say in regards to that.

Actually, no it's not. You mention keeping Rendell in check - well, guess what we've been doing here in MD? We've been keeping the idiots in charge from enacting a proposed AWB for the past half a decade. That's something to be proud of, I'd say. The last set of hearings they held for that little bit of legislation, they had to turn us away at the hall in Annapolis.

We've got a hell of a grass-roots organization here in MD, and we're getting stronger every day. We've had next to no help from the national RKBA groups, yet we've managed to keep the idiots in charge from advancing their anti-gun nonsense any further.

There's more to a state besides it's politics, as well. The state that you're so quick to call a sewer just happens to have some of the most beautiful waterways and park land on the east coast.

But I guess all that doesn't matter, right?

 

[Hungry Seagull]

I was not going to get into the cesspool bit, but I was thinking that everyone keeps thier lawn mowed one-half inch high and cannot hardly participate in nature in the suburbs. That is what the parks near Camp David is for.

I wonder what the Deer count would be this year to shoot in them there hills yonder towards Emmitsburg this year.

 

[JohnBT]

"There's more to a state besides it's politics"

True. I grew up in downtown Baltimore and graduated from high school in Montgomery County.

Having said that, I was living in Maryland when Spiro Agnew was elected as Nixon's VP and we all cheered when he resigned as Governor.

Then there's Nancy D'Alesandro, her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. was a congressman from Maryland (1939-47) and mayor of Baltimore (1947-59). Her brother, Thomas J. D'Alesandro III, also was mayor of Baltimore from '67-71.
Now she's known as Nancy Pelosi.

The Free State does have a track record when it comes to its politics.

John

 

[amprecon]

I was born and raised there and have paid my fair share of taxes, fees, tolls, dues, fines, capital gains and every other imposition upon the MD citizen they could get away with. I have earned the right to call it as I see it.

BTW I still miss everything else about it.

You know what's funny though, as draconian as the gun laws are there, I always had a gun on or near me, I was gonna live, be d*mned their laws.

 

[JohnBT]

And the new bridge STILL goes through DC.

" Additionally, the District will grant a permanent easement to Maryland and Virginia for the portion of the bridge located within its boundaries."


They are granting a permanent easement. They still own the land. When you drive on that portion of the bridge you are in DC. If DC didn't own the land that the bridge was on(well water)

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Yep, the part of D.C. that the bridge passes over is 300 feet of the Potomac River. All water, no land at all, and no D.C. law enforcement on the bridge. You need to look up the relevant legal definitions pertaining to "permanent easement."

John

P.S. - And I still haven't gotten over the Colts sneaking out of town in the middle of the night.

 

[tang22]

"Yep, the part of D.C. that the bridge passes over is 300 feet of the Potomac River. All water, no land at all, and no D.C. law enforcement on the bridge"

Yes. Exactly as I said, part of the beltway goes through DC. The original poster said it didn't. Just clarifying that the beltway does in fact go through the boundaries of DC.

 

[45Badger]

To clarify my cesspool comment....I was referring to Baltimore.

Like Philly, it is a mess that needs more birth control and less gun control.

And the taxes are a bit nuts, but if that's what makes you happy, keep electing the same fools.

 

[bob.a]

I've been living in MD since 1971. Taxes are getting uglier, but for the moment still bearable (unlike NY, where much of my family lives. Can't believe how much they pay, for worse service than I get here).

What yanks my chain is the impossibility of getting a CCW. Now I'm too old to fight, too out of shape to run, and with the open door policies of Montgomery County's govt, my half of the county is filling up with illegals, who have brought MS13 in, big time. I'd really like to carry legally, but don't wish to spend my retirement (such as it will be) behind bars, or in a wheelchair.

It's all very well to say how beautiful the place is, and all that, but I really wish I could claim the full rights of citizenship. My kids and grandkids all live here; sure hate to leave them behind. But it might be better than living in fear, or being beaten to a pulp.

Anyone here know a good lawyer who could help get me a permit?

 

[kingpin008]

Bob - you might want to contact Sebastian Sassi, he's a community activist in Pigtown, who recently managed to get himself a CCW, due mostly to the fact that he's been threatened and harassed quite a bit by the local gang-bangers in his neighborhood. If anyone knows what it's gonna take to even have a possibility to get one, it'd probably be him.

He has a blog over at http://progunprogressive.com - check it out and send him an email. I obviously can't guarantee that he'll answer, but it's worth a shot.

Another group to contact would be Maryland Shall Issue.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I do hear Baltimore does have a a real bad crime problem. Seems the scum from DC managed to migrate to its next door neighbor.

NOPE, they are home grown types, and per capita, Baltimore has one of the worst, if not the worst, heroine problem in the entire nation. Add to that fact that the Governors in the past placed severely liberal judges on the benches, and you get what we have.

We are rapidly heading down the left wing path of Massachusetts.

LD

 

[bob.a]

Thanks, Kingpin, I'll give it a shot.

 

[Phil Lee]

The Wilson bridge is owned by the federal government, not DC. It spans a river entirely between Virginia and Maryland at the crossing spot. The portion of Maryland and Virginia ceded to form DC did not include the land under the bridge.

How you get the idea that this bridge is a part of the territory forming the federal enclave of DC is beyond me.

The DC beltway is subject to the gun laws of Virginia on the road bed up to the Virginia shore line of the Potomac and to the laws of Maryland over the waters of the Potomac and on Maryland land except to the extent that interstate travelers are protected by Federal law. DC gun laws apply nowhere on the DC beltway.