Gun safety provisions Gov. O'Malley enacted in Maryland introduced as legislation in Congress

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4. They're doing wonders in CT.

CT's violent crime rate is down <10% (a cumulative 19%) for two consecutive years after passing similar legislation. Hartford has an increase in its murder rate but the rate of non-gun murders has increased while firearm-related deaths has held steady. As for what "Red States" will pass, I care not. The goal is to pass such laws nationally. Eventually, they will trickle into existence in red and purple states whether the public there wants them or not.

Personally, I am all in favor of going further to withhold federal block-grant funds earmarked for law enforcement from states that do not pass these kinds of gun-control initiatives. It will cajole some states into passing such laws and conservatives in other redder states can be happy they reduced federal spending right up until their violent crime rates increase and they lack the tools to combat those increases.