This is a waste of time. Aren't there other things more pressing?

Way to go Pat..... Keep up the good work......Steve there is always plenty of time for your O'Lair and his Dem to raise taxes......

"O'Lair"??

This is another example of McDonough and his "Ready!,Shoot! Aim!" tactics. If he had only done a little homework, just a little he would have realized that the only people who use these databases are the Gun Nutters themselves. They like to use them when they put on their best camouflage and waddle down to Annapolis to testify in favor of loosening the gun laws. They always try to make an issue of which lawmakers have CCW's themselves but are voting against pro CCW legislation.

Yea lets waste time making the soft crab sandwich the states official sandwich.

So what was the intent of the new York paper putting out this database?

"....that in the wake of the Sandy Hill Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, residents have the right to know who has legal licenses for weapons in their area. "

Where was all this feigned indignation when the newspapers in Tennessee and Florida did the same thing?

So advertising names and addresses of legal gun owners is the answer to this problem? I think it's opening a Pandora's box. Hey criminals this is where the guns are, have at them. Guess next you will be complaining when home invaders are being killed in large numbers over the publishing of this database.

They put themselves in a public database. I don't feel bad if their names are publicized. Just like the Goofballs that signed the Same Sex Marriage and Instate Tuition petitions. Nobody forced them to put their names and addresses out there.

Has McDonough ever introduced any legislation that actually passed?

I just don't understand what good comes from publishing this information. How does anyone except a burglar benefit from knowing if I have firearms in my home? Would this have prevented Newtown? I sincerely don't think so. While I think the legislation being proposed by McDonough is a bit frivolous, I agree with it in principle

@evets such a map of convicted sex offenders is readily available online for pretty much every area. there are also apps that incorporate this information into them as well.

So it looks like the press is putting the public back in public records. Privacy and street cred have always been at odds.

Look at it this way: since middle-class people don't keep money in the house--aside from the silver and the missus's jewelry, you can think of the public knowledge that there are guns in the house as bait. Then, you can move your cars away from the house and sit there and wait in the dark for all of the felons to break in to steal them and BLAM!

"I just don't understand what good comes from publishing this information."

What happens if you have a child and he gets invited over to a friend's house to play or a sleepover? This way you can just look at the map and make other plans.

Thank you for saving me the time evets. I take the time to ge to know the people with whom I choose to leave my children. I also take the time to instruct my children on proper firearm safety, which every parent should do regardless of gun ownership.

I don't see the harm in publishing the information, frankly. Nothing to be ashamed of, right? And perhaps parents might want to know whether there are guns in a home where their children might be a guest. "Every day approximately five children are injured or killed on a nationwide basis as a result of handguns. The primary cause of youth-involved shooting rests with the fact that children find loaded handguns in the home – and natural curiosity leads them down the road to disaster." (http://www.thesurvivorsclub.org/extreme/surviving-accidents/accidental-shooting). Five kids per day. That's quite a few more than are kidnapped/killed by the registered sex offenders (in Maryland, ALL sex offenders, regardless of tier, are on the public registry) whose names/faces/addresses are splashed all over the 'net, even though DOJ statistics put sex offender recidivism rates at less than 5%.
(http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/press/rsorp94pr.cfm).

Do any of the statistical geniuses here disagree with the basic premise that there are nearly as many guns in the U.S. as there are people?

I find it hard to believe, but apparently there is no set of protocols in place for even ascertaining how many guns are manufactured or imported.

According to a 2004 study, approximately one-third of the small arms on earth are in private hands in the U.S.

I am no fashion plate, but I am not feeling the white dinner jacket/ multi-chin/pink tie combo, State Del. Pat McDonough.

If they can publish my salary each year, they can publish a list of who has a gun in their house. Would work wonders to deter people from trying to break into those houses. I don't have a gun but put me on that map and let everyone think I do.

I would think liberals would be against this for two reasons. One since they say they believe in privacy, why would they support an invasion of it? Two since they hate guns and obviously don't own one, would they want some criminal to know that so they can break into their house more easily?

Seems that some people so enamored of the 2nd Amendment are disdainful of the 1st.

The presence of killing machines in neighborhoods should be given the widest possible publicity.

Also, they know you don't have anything worth the risk of trying to steal it.

Right now the federal government does not accumulate how many and what kid of weapons a person purchases as that data accumulation has been successfully fought against by the NRA. I don't care to know who has a license, I'd rather know how many and what type of guns my neighbors have in their house.

Hey Pat! Why don't you STFU! This is all about the 1st Amendment not the 2nd.

Here is a Quiz. How many amendments does the Constitution have?

....or here is an even easier question.

How many sisters does Honey Boo Boo have?

I think you ought to make a recording of your post and play it over a loudspeaker outside your house.

You might get rocks thrown in your direction but nobody--NOBODY--will darken the door.

As Holton pointed out in an earlier post, the NRA sells it's membership list anyway. McDonough should have done his homework.

I like the idea of revealing this information. That way all of the criminals will know whose home they can invade knowing that no one inside is ARMED. This will have the unintended consequences of putting the Maryland General Assembly in the running to beat Baraaaaack No-Bomba as gun salesman of the century.

Oh, while you're at it, all of you who really think this is a good idea, why don't you go down to one of the many sign shops and have them make a nice sign for your front yard that reads "This home contains NO FIREARMS" and post it in your front yard. If you don't do this then you must be a hypocrite because that is EXACTLY what such a database will result in.

U.S. arms manufacturers are stocking the world and our citizens are buying the surplus. What's the big deal? Heh heh...an arms deal, silly.

I don't know about you guys (above), but I'd like to see a list of the criminals who have the illegal guns!

I couldn't have said it better Callahan! Stop on by Continental Arms anytime.

I guess Harry it is your legal right to have a gun and my legal right to know it. As noted earlier, if McDonough sponsors it, it is not going anywhere. They laugh at him in Annapolis, even Republicans think he is a loon.

A "loon"? Actually I think they called him a "doofus"

http://redmaryland.blogspot.com/2012/01/pat-mcdonough-is-doofus-and-other.html

Actually .. I've heard it was a reference to a certain body part .. the one "where the sun don't shine" LOL

"The constitution does not impose duty on the state and local governments to protect the citizens from criminal harm"
DeShaney vs. Winnebago County, 1989 U.S. Supreme Court

The non pro gun people like myself will never win this argument. We pay attention to the gun issue only when horrid things happen. The real gun people live and breathe this every single day of their lives.

I don't understand what this bill is going to publish? Will it be current permits to carry a handgun? If so, I believe that information is already "public."

If not, to publish a list of all "Gun Owners" How will this information be obtained? ATF/Federal Form 4473 is used in Maryland for all firearms, however; "Regulated" (per State Police) firearms (again, only a Maryland thing) consist of a handful of rifles, and all handguns that have extra special paperwork and processes added to them.

Records could be obtained from State Police on all the "Regulated" Firearm transfers (Note: I said transfers, not registered) and published, but what about people who don't own handguns? Will someone be scouring every gun shop in Maryland to audit and record the addresses of every non regulated Long gun purchased?

It seems to me this "list" will never be thoroughly accurate as the "feel good" as this news article makes it out to be.

"Elizabeth, you’re using a poor analogy, registered sex offenders are criminals of the worst sort. In comparison, the gun owners can be considered model citizens by passing the numerous checks required for their permit.

Just saying"

Francis, my point was that if we are going to make lists of people/places/things that pose a danger to children, it makes as much sense to list homes where children could have access to guns as it does to list the names of everyone convicted of a sex offense, no matter how minor, how long ago and whether or not it involved a child. Not all sex offenders are "criminals of the worst sort", anymore than all gun owners are irresponsible yahoos. Are SOME offenders child molesters? Yes. Are SOME gun owners irresponsible? Do SOME children get injured/killed by unsecured weapons? Sadly, yes. Instead of worrying about whether the guy down the street had sex with his girlfriend when he was 19 and she was 15 (or worse, had a topless photo she sent him in his possession), I would think concerned parents would want to know in which homes curious children might encounter deadly weapons.

I think the main point to be taken away here is this. If you don't wish to own a firearm, then don't buy one. If you don't wish to associate with those who own firearms, then don't do so. How will you know who is who, then just ask people. If they refuse to answer or equivocate on the question then you can bet that the answer is "Yes, I have firearms in my home."

Likewise, if you do not wish to associate with people who don't own firearms, then ask them the same question and take whatever action you want to take based on their answer when it comes to avoiding them.

But don't try to tell me that I cannot or should not own firearms and have them in my home. Only people who have been thoroughly been investigated by the Maryland State Police are allowed to buy and own firearms. If you don't wish to associate with me then don't. But when you are in a bind, don't come to me asking for help or expect me to protect you.

"The panel concluded that 10-round magazines that were legal would have not made much difference in the incident. Even pistols with rapid loaders could have been about as deadly in this situation."
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/tempcontent/techPanelReport-docs/10%20CHAPTER%20VI%20GUN%20PURCHASE%20AND%20CAMPUS%20GUN%20POLICIES.pdf

From the The Virginian Tech Review Panel's assessment of the school incident.

NRA Has 54% Favorable Image in U.S.
Majority Say NRA Doesn't Always Reflect Their Views
http://www.gallup.com/poll/159578/nra-favorable-image.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines

Barack Obama Favorable Rating 49%
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/polls/cbs-16822

U.S. Distrust in Media Hits New High. 60% saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/157589/distrust-media-hits-new-high.aspx

Those of us who support the US Constitution and its amendments (gun nuts to some) have said registration is next then confiscation to follow. We were right.
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/assault-weapons

"Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include:

Background check of owner and any transferee;
Type and serial number of the firearm;
Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;
Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and
Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration."

"In a Department of Justice study (pdf), Jeffrey Roth and Christopher Koper find that the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was responsible for a 6.7 percent decrease in total gun murders,"

Really? Where are the causation/correlation people whining about this use of statistics by Feinstein?

Do you ever narrate, Joe?

Do you ever do anything with the copious-pastes? How do they influence your thinking? Are they all of the equal weight? Are some much more important than others?

What are other people to do with them? Wait for your commentary? Trust your conclusions? Open the links and read? Read youd extensive and laboriously quoted passages?

You deal out one-liners as consistently and stubbornly and even more viciously than anybody here.

One of JoeBlob's heroes strikes again....

http://news.yahoo.com/maine-man-74-held-deaths-teenage-tenants-172604651.html

Steve again does what he does best. Impugning the worst toward others.
What kind of sickness allows a man? to do such a thing regularly?

Steve supported the Occupopers so does that mean these 2 are his heroes? No but then again I am reasonable and not afflicted with such a sickness as Steve is.

T"he daughter of a prominent New York doctor went into labor and had to rushed to the hospital when she was arrested on charges of having explosives, illegal weapons and a stack of papers labeled 'The Terrorist Encyclopedia' in her New York City apartment.

Morgan Gliedman, 27, and her boyfriend Aaron Greene, 31, an Occupy Wall Street organizer, were taken away from their home in Manhattan's pricey Greenwich Village on Saturday."

Joe, do you call subscribing to pulp RSS feeds "doing reasearch." Silly boy, read a book sometimes.

Take your latest, for example: T"he daughter of a prominent New York doctor went into labor and had to rushed to the hospital when she was arrested on charges of having explosives, illegal weapons and a stack of papers labeled 'The Terrorist Encyclopedia' in her New York City apartment.

Morgan Gliedman, 27, and her boyfriend Aaron Greene, 31, an Occupy Wall Street organizer, were taken away from their home in Manhattan's pricey Greenwich Village on Saturday."

What is your point? What research? Is it that some bad befell a young woman? Is it that Occupiers are terrorists? Is it that you don't like Steve? What, Joe, what?

I think you may need to watch and learn and ask questions instead of jumping on the mean bus. I object to nothing but your viciousness and stubborness.

Wow you guys need to get a life!!!!!