Proposal to come before Lexington Town Meeting

[Obie1]

The audio cuts out every few seconds on my stream. Impossible to grasp what's being said. Because this is NES, I do have to ask who was the hot blonde that flashed through the screen?

 

[goodzilla]

The stupid is strong in that room, very little facts, lots of feeeeeling. Apparently he just got away with mass killing statistics = assuault weapons killings statistics leap. Arghghgh

 

[Mike S]

Rotberg seems to know a lot about the proposals in the other towns.

- - - Updated - - -

Rotberg: "guns from outside of Lexington, may come into Lexington and cause violence"

 

[Freddy B]

Somebody said the Bill of Rights was an "afterthought". Idiot.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

 

[Mike S]

This article is going to pass, they are lining up one after another at the "Yes" mic

 

[Drix]

It has become apparent that this is going to pass with flying colors -.-

 

[MachineHead]

This article is going to pass, they are lining up one after another at the "Yes" mic

Well, that's bad. What are the short term/long term implications of this non-binding resolution?

 

[nightpoison]

Great questions to the chief. Wish there was more follow up with it

 

[Horrible]

This article is going to pass, they are lining up one after another at the "Yes" mic

Yup. Even those few lining up at the 'No' microphone support gun control.

 

[Mike S]

We're getting a lot of people who are reading directly from literature provided by Everytown.

...and they complain about the NRA.

 

[Drix]

...and they complain about the NRA.

Did the NRA supply any literature?

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

Well, that's bad. What are the short term/long term implications of this non-binding resolution?

What I see is that this will spread to more towns like wildfire and some will be binding not "non-binding" eventually long term, we will have 255 different sets of gun laws. It will take a few years but it is starting

 

[nstassel]

84 to end debate and vote, 80 to keep up debate, 8 abstain

 

[nightpoison]

Passed 105 to 62, 5 abstain

 

[Matt_SERE]

To stop discussion and vote now:

84 yes
80 no
8 abstain


Motion to vote passes.

105 62, 5 abstain.

 

[Drix]

What I learned from this meeting: Mics were Yes/No and Questions. The anti-2a agenda stacked the Yes and ? mic's and dominated the conversation with flawed numbers.

 

[1903Collector]

I Loved the lady from Maine who said how forward thinking the people of Lexington are......**** you snob!

 

[Trackrat]

Time to push back against this b.s. hard. Defense and playing nice does not work.

 

[JJ4]

A few takeaways:
- I suspect that many voting yes viewed a resolution about a "conversation" as not carrying much weight, so voting for it doesn't really do anything.
- Town Meeting members are generally people who have time on their hands to be involved in local politics.
- That being said, become involved if you don't want "those people" making decisions for you.
- That moderator did a great job.

 

[Capecod1]

Two things to remember....lots of towns don't have this TM member crap.....whoever can get the bigger number to attend and vote will win. And sooner or later, the state will have to step in to stop 351 towns from having 351 separate laws

 

[mibro]

Two things to remember....lots of towns don't have this TM member crap.....whoever can get the bigger number to attend and vote will win. And sooner or later, the state will have to step in to stop 351 towns from having 351 separate laws

This is very important. Towns with the TMM system present a big problem as the TMMs are subject to peer pressure. In towns with an open vote a much more organized effort will have to be made to identify pro-2A citizens and encourage them to show up and vote.

 

[economist]

It's a costless vote that makes liberals feel good. You can't beat this stuff in massively liberal Mass towns. Now if they ever get around to a real local bylaw with teeth (assuming that is possible and legal), the way to beat it is to point out the costs, the risks, and make it clear lawsuits are coming. There is not that much money available, even in wealthy towns, to just throw it away at some liberal moral vanity project. And if they do face a real cost, it's coming out of the discretionary items these progressives love: library funds, conservation funds, all of the local meddling and do good projects, etc. Most of the money goes to town employees -- and that's mostly school, fire, and police and associated retirement and benefits costs. The town meeting regulars know this. A non-binding resolution full of pipe dreams and nonsense is one thing. Putting real money at risk for next to no benefit, even for gun grabbing, is another.

 

[chinalfr]

Here is the new Minutemen statue.

 

[SpaceCritter]

Here is the new Minutemen statue.

No - those should be dildos. (Can someone do this - please??!?)

 

[exo]

No - those should be dildos. (Can someone do this - please??!?)

Everyone who voted for this is a dildo.

 

[Mike S]

From GOAL's facebook

Tonight, the elected representatives of the town of Lexington voted affirmatively on Article 34, 105 - 62, to initiate a town wide discussion on "gun violence".

This discussion will be hosted and sponsored by the League of Women Voters, a group that has time and again testified for restricting Second Amendment freedom.

How can a fair discussion take place, based on this knowledge?

The article that they voted on was written in a manner which already concluded that there is a "need" to orchestrate greater restrictions on our freedom in the name of "safety".

How can a fair or reasonable outcome be expected based on this?

Disappointing result for the town of Lexington, the elected officials of which smeared the town's place in history this evening.

 

[Palladin]

Jesus

 

[Len-2A Training]

Don't worry, Coyote33 will be there and will stand in for you, and for all of us.

He is a real doer and action-taker.

Thanks

.

RIGHT!!!

 

[Squire]

From GOAL's facebook

Should resident gun owners expect a gold foil invitation from the LWV to participate in the broad "discussion"? They shouldn't hold their breath.

 

[Royal]

Behold the new Bloomberg/Everytown/Moms strategy:

Death By A Thousand Cuts (discussions about "Gun Violence").

First they will try confiscation but that will most likely prove too extreme. Alas, by coming back with something more "reasonable" and creating a "relatively lesser and more common sense minded" strategy (discussions about "Gun Violence") they can start a "dialogue" about guns. With hope that'll lead to more discussions, a neighboring town will try something a liiiiittle more extreme (they went for it and it snuck through!).

A slow and deliberate erosion of our Second Amendment rights.