O'M: I'm calling on Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton to back meaningful gun safety reforms

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Martin O'Malley ?@MartinOMalley 11m11 minutes ago
I'm calling on @BernieSanders and @HillaryClinton to back meaningful gun safety reforms: http://omly.us/1jID6LR




Raymond Buckley ?@ChairmanBuckley 2h2 hours ago
At the @SCDCNHDems fall event listening to @MartinOMalley #nhpolitics



Elsie Raymer ?@elraymer 48m48 minutes ago
Huge applause tonight for @MartinOMalley's urgent call for gun reform at @SCDCNHDems Fall Social #nhpolitics




Martin O'Malley ?@MartinOMalley 3m3 minutes ago
It doesn't matter who you support in this race—meaningful gun reform is something we should all fight for.



Martin O'Malley ?@MartinOMalley 32m32 minutes ago
My plan will not stop every senseless gun death. But it will ensure fewer families are torn apart by gun violence. http://omly.us/1JJO3le

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1. When it comes to gun control

I dont think O'Malley is qualified to take the lead because he hasnt been able to corral the violence of Baltimore

[Raine1967]

4. He is quite qualified — what he did as Governor more than qualifies him:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-gun-violence-effort-20150930-story.html

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh and other officials urged more states Wednesday to adopt strict handgun purchasing laws, pointing to Johns Hopkins research that shows permit requirements are associated with reductions in gun deaths.

Frosh sent letters to his attorney general counterparts across the nation promoting permit-to-purchase laws. The former Democratic state senator played a key role in the passage of Maryland's 2013 Firearm Safety Act.

"We can only do so much," Frosh said at a news conference in Towson. "People can buy guns in our neighboring jurisdictions and bring them across the state lines illegally, and it adds to the violence and deaths that we experience in our state."

Frosh appeared at the Baltimore County Courthouse with Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen, County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and Police Chief Jim Johnson, as well as members of Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence. Johnson has been a national advocate for tougher gun control, serving as chairman of the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence

The 2013 Maryland law requires handgun buyers to get a license from state police and pass a fingerprint-based background check. Among other provisions, it banned the sale of assault weapons and magazines with more than 10 bullets. Then-Gov. Martin O'Malley sought the law after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

The violence that you speak of in Baltimore had NOTHING to do with Gun control. IT also didn't begin when he was mayor, not didn't end when he was mayor and sadly it hasn't ended with any other mayor. Crime did however drop when he was mayor and it also dropped in the state when he was governor.

Blaming O'MAlley for Baltimore's woes is short sighted and ignores a long history of neglect that city experienced when manufacturing left.

If anything, it was O'Malley that made serious inroads to revitalizing the city. The work is clearly not done, but it was a start.

you can ignore what O'MAlley did as governor and choose to focus on what you think he did not do as MAyor, but keep this in mind:

He was elected as Mayor twice in Baltimore. That says a lot.

Mayor of Baltimore (1999-2007)
O'Malley announced his mayoral campaign 1999. He won the Democratic primary with over 50 percent of the vote. He was then elected mayor of Baltimore in the general election with over 90 percent of the vote. In 2004, O'Malley was re-elected in the general election with 88 percent of the vote, defeating Republican challenger Elbert (Ray) Henderson

http://ballotpedia.org/Martin_O'Malley#Gun_control

Seems like the people of Baltimore were pretty ok with him.

Welcome to DU.

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10. As O'Malley has said in response

...The city had record deaths and record violent crime when he took office which saw a sharp reduction during his terms as mayor.

from David Freedlander at Daily Beast:

From 2000 to 2010, the incidence of crime in Baltimore dropped 43 percent, outpacing by a stretch the 11 percent drop that the nation saw during that period. The crime rate dropped by 40 percent.

____ What was happening during his term was an effort to clear the open-air drug markets which had been plaguing black majority neighborhoods. If those had been white-majority communities in Baltimore, there would be no question of the swift and thorough response to drug-related crime and violence which threatened and cost black lives, many young black lives. I think he's correct in estimating that possibly 1000 black lives were actually saved by his police dept.'s focus on responding to and acting on the drug activity which was running rampant in Baltimore when he took office. During his time as governor, recidivism was cut significantly, and incarceration rates were actually REDUCED in his terms to 20 year lows; and voting rights were restored to 52,000 individuals with felonies.

That was a direct result of not only the heightened attention by the police to that drug activity, but also a result of a community policing effort, policing the police with increased accountability for police abuses, and a massive drug-treatment program which recovered many black lives in those communities. He also closed the most violent prison in the city, ended the death penalty, signed decriminalization of small amounts of pot into law, and actually brought incarceration rates down during his stay in office.

That says 'black lives matter,' at least to those black lives which were granted safe streets, prevention of violent crimes and killings and other opportunities to improve on their way of life.

[Raine1967]

2. Every one one of his proposals are sensible.

What he did in Maryland is one of the major reasons why I support him.

[AtomicKitten]

3. Nice sentiment but until the pro-gun choads in Congress get sorted out, it's going nowhere.

[Raine1967]

5. Change the Title to O'MG!

More people will take a look.

[jkbRN]

6. Common sense! Love the proposals--

I think both Bernie and Hillary will agree to this (one would hope)

[one_voice]

7. KnR

I love what I'm reading.

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8. They make ense....but not so much out of line with what eitehr Clinton or Sanders support

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12. Difference being O'Malley's delivered on gun control measures. Hillary and Bernie

have just talked. Actions matter.

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13. yep

Matt Sheaff ?@MattSheaff 1h1 hour ago
In MD, @MartinOMalley forged a new consensus to ban assault weapons and enact comprehensive gun safety reform #actionsnotwords #nhpolitics

Matt Sheaff ?@MattSheaff 2h2 hours ago
"If he can do it in Maryland, he could do it in the USA too” #nhpolitics http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/04/malley-lays-out-gun-control-plan-event/oxQgJjJ2NHkp76csriNQ6O/story.html …

Gun safety provisions Gov. O'Malley enacted in Maryland introduced as legislation in Congress
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251637727

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9. My plan will not stop every senseless gun death. But it will ensure

fewer families are torn apart by gun violence.

Huge applause tonight for @MartinOMalley's urgent call for gun reform at @SCDCNHDems Fall Social

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11. two articles

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O'Malley for NH ?@omalleyfornh 28m28 minutes ago
"O’Malley urged supporters of Clinton& Sanders to back his “commonsense provisions” to address issue.” https://politics.concordmonitor.com/2015/10/politics-election/clinton-to-outline-plan-for-addressing-gun-violence/ … #nhpolitics

O'Malley for NH ?@omalleyfornh 37m37 minutes ago
@MartinOMalley Lays Out Gun Control Plan at N.H Event http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/04/malley-lays-out-gun-control-plan-event/oxQgJjJ2NHkp76csriNQ6O/story.html … #nhpolitics

“I know that not everyone in this room has made a decision about what candidate you will support,” Mr. O’Malley said. “But I also know this is New Hampshire and that some of you have. So I’m asking supporters of Senator Sanders to please urge Senator Sanders to back these four common sense provisions that I just laid out to reduce gun violence. And I am asking the supporters of Secretary Clinton to please urge Secretary Clinton to back the specific provisions that I just laid out. And I’m asking both Senator Sanders and Secretary Clinton, Governor Chafee, all of those in our race, to join me in building a new consensus.”