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Mar 7, 2006 7:13 pm US/Eastern
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Advocates Ask Ehrlich For Assault Weapons Ban
by Suzanne Collins
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) ―
Two well-known public health advocates have a list of requests for Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich.
National gun control advocate Sarah Brady and former surgeon general C. Everett Koop wrote a letter to Ehrlich asking for his support on several hot-button issues.
The pair requested a $1 tax on cigarettes, a ban on smoking in all public places, a ban on assault rifles and increased funding for HIV treatment and education.
Brady is the wife of Jim Brady, a former assistant to the president and White House Press Secretary during the Reagan administration who was shot during an assassination attempt on Reagan's life.
Delegate Neil Quinter of Howard County is the sponsor of the assault weapons ban. "For ten years, we had an assault weapons ban at a federal level and the use of assault weapons in crimes decreased by fully 2/3," says Quinter.
Governor Ehrlich tells
WJZ's Suzanne Collins that he will not support any tax on cigarettes, nor would he support an assault weapons ban.
The governor also says he has increased AIDS funding by 26.7 percent in his proposed budget.
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