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Related: About this forumLexington (Massachusetts) man backs off proposed town ban on ‘assault weapons’
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/17/lexington-man-backs-off-proposed-town-ban-assault-weapons/8y9tnikn1w7aERm1RK2JDM/story.htmlA 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 Selectmens meeting earlier this month against Rotbergs proposal to ban certain types of semi-automatic weapons in town...
...But after hearing from about half of the towns 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.
...About 150 gun advocates from Lexington and across the state spoke out at a Board of Selectmens meeting earlier this month against Rotbergs proposal to ban certain types of semi-automatic weapons in town...
...But after hearing from about half of the towns 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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Lexington (Massachusetts) man backs off proposed town ban on ‘assault weapons’ (Original Post)
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2016
OP
If controller/banners can't do any better than this in MA, then the "turning point"....
Eleanors38
Mar 2016
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Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)1. If controller/banners can't do any better than this in MA, then the "turning point"....
...is a circle.
benEzra
(12,148 posts)2. Since there are close to zero rifle murders annually annually in the entire state...
and none in Lexington, this proposal was asinine to start with.