RI Community’s Committee Rejects Bid For Gun Control Resolution

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Steven Senne

Local communities have very little power for good reason. The needs of one community don’t always coincide with the needs of another. If every city could dictate what the rest of its state has to do, it would be chaos. Imagine every city had the power within its state like Chicago or New York.

*shudder*

However, these cities can let their thoughts be known. One method for doing this is to pass resolutions. If enough communities pass such resolutions calling for a certain type of law, legislators will eventually get the message, especially if they’re interested in moving up to higher office…or keeping their current ones.

The matter recently came up as a Rhode Island city council had to determine whether it would pass a resolution calling for gun control.

On one side of City Hall’s Council Chambers sat a group of people wearing pink or orange shirts bearing the names of the groups Moms Demand Action and the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence, with slogans such as “#NeverAgainRI.”

Across the aisle were others in yellow shirts, many bearing the language of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and promoting the Rhode Island Second Amendment Coalition.

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Source:: Bearing Arms