WBOC quotes Johnny pushing back on gun bill that punishes mental-health treatment

Johnny stood up in front of the House Judiciary Committee and said what Eastern Shore families already know — Annapolis’s instinct to strip law-abiding owners of their guns whenever mental health enters the picture doesn’t make anyone safer. It just punishes the people most likely to ask for help.

Here on the Eastern Shore, guns aren’t a Baltimore policy abstraction. They’re in pickup trucks heading to a deer stand in Caroline County, locked in safes in Dorchester, passed down across generations of Shore families. A gun owner facing a hard stretch shouldn’t have to choose between getting treatment and keeping a right protected by the Constitution.

Johnny pushed back on the one-size-fits-all approach written for the Beltway and called for a real system — one that protects both the Second Amendment and access to mental-health care.