Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is joining a chorus of other Democratic governors in seeking a tightening of his state’s gun laws in the wake of the mass shooting last month at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

No one denies that Virginians love their guns, but in the wake of the Newtown massacre they also seem inclined to support some modest gun control proposals.

Authorities filed two more charges today against Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, who was accused last November of firing an assault rifle at the White House, the Associated Press reported.