Lexington (Massachusetts) man backs off proposed town ban on ‘assault weapons’ [View all]
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/17/lexington-man-backs-off-proposed-town-ban-assault-weapons/8y9tnikn1w7aERm1RK2JDM/story.html
A Lexington man who proposed a local ban on “assault weapons” has switched gears after polling his fellow Town Meeting members, and will instead move forward with a nonbinding resolution urging state legislators to strengthen Massachusetts gun laws...
...About 150 gun advocates from Lexington and across the state spoke out at a Board of Selectmen’s meeting earlier this month against Rotberg’s proposal to ban certain types of semi-automatic weapons in town...
...But after hearing from about half of the town’s 201 elected Town Meeting members in an informal survey, Rotberg found that while some wanted to press forward with the ban, a “more sizable and vocal group wanted no part of the motion as presented.”
The disinterested reader will note the proposed bylaw got little support and
was opposed 30-2 by speakers at the earlier meeting:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/09/gun-rights-advocates-decry-proposal-ban-semi-automatic-weapons-lexington/IluT5ejbIhwzk2ieWGxK9J/story.html
Once again, the purported 'silent majority' that supposedly wants more gun control turns
out to not actually exist...
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