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Joseph Curran Jr. is a known rabbid anti-Second Amendment, anti self defensefigure.
http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=617
Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr’s announcement that he will not seek re-election removes from the American political scene one of the most rabid anti-Second Amendment, anti-self-defense public officials in the history of our country. Curran, among other things, issued a 63-page report titled “A Farewell To Arms: The Solution To Gun Violence In America.” But, Curran’s report was a “solution” to nothing. Instead, it was a brazen, blatant, ignorant, erroneous, brass-knuckled attack on the Second Amendment.
On page 10 of his wretched report — verbally foaming at the mouth and seething with hatred toward private persons who own guns — Curran said that “owning and carrying handguns” must be stigmatized so that this Constitutionally-protected right is “seen as dangerous and aberrant behavior.” One definition of the word “aberrant” is, of course, mentally unbalanced. So, Curran was saying, not so subtly, that he looks forward to a time when people who own and carry handguns are seen as crazy, as nuts. On page 63 of his report, Curran said: “Our goal, then, must be to eliminate widespread handgun ownership through restrictive handgun licensing.”
But, it is Curran’s views about guns which are nutty. In an interview in February of 2000, Curran told me how his daughter had been car-jacked in the early 1990s by a man with a handgun. He also spoke about how his father had been shot at in Baltimore’s City Hall and later died of a heart attack.
When asked if there was any gun-control law which would have prevented these crimes?, Curran replied: “If there had been some — in other words, if the manufacturer, when they made these things, then have some understanding about how they would be distributed and what type of dealers they’re going to go to, what criteria dealers use — rather than just because these guns are made -I don’t think manufacturers can say, ‘Well, I made them and I gave them to a distributor and what they do thereafter is their business.’ I think that’s nonsense.”
But, what’s nonsense is what Curran suggests. Seriously, how, exactly, would his proposal work in real life? — for example, in the two personal crimes he mentions. Before a gun manufacturer sells a gun to a dealer should the dealer be required by law to pledge that these guns will be sold to no carjackers?, that these guns will be sold to no one who will use them to shoot up Baltimore’s City Hall?
Please.
