Don’t they know there’s a law against that?

Baltimore’s criminals and thugs have had a busy month of May.

The city’s media are reporting that it’s the deadliest month the city has seen in more than 15 years. There were 28 shootings reported and nine homicides just over the Memorial Day weekend.

But how can that be? Surely Maryland’s criminals know that in their state:

It is unlawful for any person without a permit to wear or carry a handgun, openly or concealed, upon or about his person. It is also unlawful for any person to knowingly transport a handgun in any vehicle traveling on public roads, highways, waterways or airways, or upon roads or parking lots generally used by the public. This does not apply to any person wearing, carrying or transporting a handgun within the confines of real estate owned or leased by him, or on which he resides, or within the confines of a business establishment owned or leased by him.

Of course, Maryland is a “may issue” state. And among other onerous qualifications, an applicant must show he has “good and substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun, such as a finding that the permit is necessary as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger” or he won’t receive a permit to carry. And if you’re under age 30, you’re only qualified if found to have not been committed to a detention center or correctional institute for juveniles, adjudicated a delinquent, or not committed a misdemeanor as a youth.

On top of this, the secretary of State Police — an ominous sounding office, that — may, at his discretion, “add restrictions to the permit including limiting the location, circumstances or time at which the handgun may be carried.”

So were these shootings done by permit holders? Hardly. Were that so, you can rest assured the media would have trumpeted that fact.

Baltimore — like Chicago; Washington, D.C.; and New York — shows conclusively that more “laws” restricting gun ownership do not prevent shootings, nor do laws preventing concealed or open carry or requiring permits keep criminals from carrying weapons. All those laws do is make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to protect themselves.

And when it comes down to it, that’s what all gun laws are about because the elites don’t want the populace to be independent. Dependents are easier to control.

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