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Related: About this forumIn 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.
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
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beevul
(12,194 posts)1. More of that "majority popular" gun control we keep hearing about.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)2. Seems like these good folks - by & large - trust their fellow citizens to be responsible gun owners.
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.
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.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)4. Mass: Known center of right-wing Grand Old Potty activism. yes indeed.nt