Posted November 11, 2016 4:13 pm by Comments

By Jenn Jacques

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Voters in the Oak Park Township of Illinois definitely have a strange way of initiating a conversation about gun control.

In a non-binding referendum introduced by Oak Park resident Piergiorgio “George” Uslenghi, voters were asked a question that read, “Shall the Constitution of the United States be amended as follows? The second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed. The United States Congress shall regulate the licensing and use of arms.”

Uslenghi, a professor at UIC, was able to add the question to Tuesday’s ballot after collecting the required 15 signatures of registered Oak Park voters. Born in Italy, Uslenghi moved to the United States in 1961 and became a United States citizen in 1982.

“I’m very satisfied, and I will take it to the next level,” Uslenghi said. “We have to keep fighting for this. The business of having a loaded gun in your pocket has to stop. Last weekend, we had 50 shootings in Chicago. Two weeks ago, we had 17 murders in Chicago. If we had lost 17 soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan, it would be national news. We lost 17 citizens, and nobody seems to care except their relatives.”

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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