Guess all that talk about this being a sleepy legislative session,
with no divisive social issues consuming it, was a little premature.
Legislative leaders were hoping for a quiet session, free from the
controversy that engulfed them last year. And most members of the
legislature, on the heels of exhausting fights over gay marriage and the
DREAM Act and gambling and budgetary chaos, wanted nothing more than a
guarantee that they’d be able to go home on time come mid-April.
But Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) had other ideas. And now all of the
legislature’s provocateurs and headline-seekers, on the left and on the
right, are busying themselves cranking up the heat. The media are giving
them plenty of attention.
We knew all along that O’Malley would make one last stab at repealing capital punishment. So we’ll give him that.
But in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Conn., there’s been a
rush, in certain state capitals, and of course, down at the White House,
to push through all manner of gun control legislation. O’Malley, with
an apparent eye on what New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) just impressively
rammed through in Albany, has his own ambitious package of gun safety
legislation
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