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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Wed May 11, 2016, 09:21 PM May 2016

In yet another Massachusetts town, further gun controls are rejected

Two months back, it was Lexington:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172189304

Yesterday, it was Longmeadow's turn, previously discussed at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172190855

It turned out even less well for the controllers than it did in Lexington:

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/05/longmeadow_town_meeting_defeat.html

Longmeadow residents defeat controversial gun control initiatives in Town Meeting

LONGMEADOW — Longmeadow residents defeated three proposals for increased gun control bylaws with overwhelming majorities in a Town Meeting that also rejected a 20 mile per hour speed limit, and designated Wolf Swamp fields as a recreation space.

For more than an hour, nearly 1,000 residents who attended Town Meeting Tuesday night debated the three citizen-led initiatives to impose bylaws that would have imposed $300 fines for carrying guns in public buildings, possessing an assault weapon and required gun owners to register their weapons with the police department...

...All three bylaw proposals failed by an overwhelming majority.


One report said the vote was 950 to 30. Heh!



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In yet another Massachusetts town, further gun controls are rejected (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast May 2016 OP
More of that "majority popular" gun control we keep hearing about. beevul May 2016 #1
Seems like these good folks - by & large - trust their fellow citizens to be responsible gun owners. jonno99 May 2016 #2
The gun control cowards don't have nearly the support they think they do. Lurks Often May 2016 #3
Mass: Known center of right-wing Grand Old Potty activism. yes indeed.nt Eleanors38 May 2016 #4

jonno99

(2,620 posts)
2. Seems like these good folks - by & large - trust their fellow citizens to be responsible gun owners.
Wed May 11, 2016, 09:47 PM
May 2016

It's nice to see folks not living in fear.

Hmmm... Longmeadow... sounds like a nice place to live...

 

Lurks Often

(5,455 posts)
3. The gun control cowards don't have nearly the support they think they do.
Thu May 12, 2016, 09:26 AM
May 2016

When it comes to public hearings, the "support" is nowhere to be found. It's the gun owners who are willing to use vacation or sick time or even lose a day's pay to show at public hearings and testify. The links in the OP are proof of that.

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