Dan Rodricks: Props to Dems for fighting the good fight, but we are surrounded by guns

You are probably not looking for more sobering facts about guns, but here are a few: In 2022, the Maryland State Police received 118,349 new applications for the purchase of handguns. With that came 85,266 applications for permits to wear and carry those guns, up from 12,189 such applications in 2021. Another 8,891 applications came in for the renewal of permits to carry.