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Constantine residents rally against, shoot down assault weapon ban [View all]
Constantine residents rally against, shoot down assault weapon ban
Posted 11:10 PM, January 18, 2016, by FOX 17 News
CONSTANTINE, Mich. -- For now, it seems that an assault weapons ban in the Village of Constantine is unlikely to pass as residents and outsiders lobbied nearly unanimously against it.
Monday night, Constantine council president Patricia Weiss opened the floor for public comment. She made and distributed printouts of a New York Times editorial - End the Gun Epidemic in America - that was published in early December to explain her rationale behind the ban.
What she didn't expect was to hear from over 20 people, speaking in unison against the possible ban.
Weiss even brought homemade cookies to calm tensions that were brought up at the council meeting two weeks prior, but even those didn't sway any to her side.
Resistance against a possible lawsuit - should a ban be enacted - was polled, with nearly the whole room raising their hands in protest.
http://fox17online.com/2016/01/18/constantine-residents-rally-against-shoot-down-assault-weapon-ban/
Posted 11:10 PM, January 18, 2016, by FOX 17 News
CONSTANTINE, Mich. -- For now, it seems that an assault weapons ban in the Village of Constantine is unlikely to pass as residents and outsiders lobbied nearly unanimously against it.
Monday night, Constantine council president Patricia Weiss opened the floor for public comment. She made and distributed printouts of a New York Times editorial - End the Gun Epidemic in America - that was published in early December to explain her rationale behind the ban.
What she didn't expect was to hear from over 20 people, speaking in unison against the possible ban.
Weiss even brought homemade cookies to calm tensions that were brought up at the council meeting two weeks prior, but even those didn't sway any to her side.
Resistance against a possible lawsuit - should a ban be enacted - was polled, with nearly the whole room raising their hands in protest.
http://fox17online.com/2016/01/18/constantine-residents-rally-against-shoot-down-assault-weapon-ban/
But we are told that the public supports banning so called 'assault weapons'.
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