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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:07 pm 
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Just when you think this state can't get any worse they come up with SB0281...

http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=billpage&tab=subject3&id=sb0281&stab=01&ys=2013RS


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:02 pm 
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That's funny. I didn't think Maryland had a President.

The entire **** State Senate of Maryland should be **** ashamed of themselves.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:47 pm 
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I will move to PA if this happens.

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Yay!

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:57 am 
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Rafael wrote:
I will move to PA if this happens.

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Like I stated to my state and local reps- you lose more than my tax money if I move. You lose revenue from my dining out down to my patronizing local businesses for services. Most importantly you lose another family in the community.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:25 pm 
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Hannibal wrote:
Rafael wrote:
I will move to PA if this happens.

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Like I stated to my state and local reps- you lose more than my tax money if I move. You lose revenue from my dining out down to my patronizing local businesses for services.


This is even more impactful if you are not employed within your own community.

Employed within your own community means money spent in your community is just changing hands.

Employed outside your community mean money spent in your community is actually boosting and growing that micro economy.

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That's true, but I doubt very much if the recipients of the letters are finding out whether the senders are employed locally or not.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:08 pm 
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Sure, just highlighting the economics of the situation.

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They held a gun buy back program and a gun show broke out

Dave Ross @ mynorthwest.com wrote:
There was a gun buyback over the weekend in Seattle - hundreds of weapons turned in, including three street-sweeper shotguns- which impressed the mayor.
"I think just looking at the name, 'Street-Sweeper,' says it all. That's not used for hunting deer," said Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn.

And in return the police handed out Amazon.com gift cards but it wasn't just the police that were buying.

Private buyers showed up too - tempting the citizenry with cash.

"I'm going to sell to whoever gives me the most money, wouldn't you?" asked one citizen.

For the guntrepreneurs, buyback programs are a great opportunity: A large gathering of law abiding gun owners ready to dump their weapons and probably having no idea what their guns are worth on the open market.

The same thing has happened over the years at buybacks in Detroit, Cleveland, Tucson, Dallas, Austin - private buyers turning police buybacks into a demonstration of the gun show loophole.

In fact, at an Austin gun buyback two years ago, a group called Texans for Accountable Government took it a step further.

"And rather than destroy them, like the Austin Police Department plans to do - we might have put them in the hands of peaceful, law-abiding citizens who are in need of firearms and potentially can't afford them themselves," explained a TAG spokesman.

They would give the guns to poor people! Because they think buybacks are ridiculous.

"It makes about as much sense as turning in your beer to reduce DWI," said one Austin citizen.

Hmm - which would mean that a better way to reduce drunk driving would be to hand out free beer?

I'll have to think that one through.


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The more politicians talk, the more I think I need to change my mind on part of this issue. And not in the way they would like. Isn't that ironic?

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DFK! wrote:
Hannibal wrote:
Rafael wrote:
I will move to PA if this happens.

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Like I stated to my state and local reps- you lose more than my tax money if I move. You lose revenue from my dining out down to my patronizing local businesses for services.


This is even more impactful if you are not employed within your own community.

Employed within your own community means money spent in your community is just changing hands.

Employed outside your community mean money spent in your community is actually boosting and growing that micro economy.


That's my exact situation. I work in PA and live over the border in DE. However I couldn't set Beau Bidens text to voice loud enough so he could hear my letter with his head so far up his own ***.

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