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Tuesday, January 08, 2013

RTM Approves Gun Control Resolution

By James Lomuscio

By a vote of 27 to 1 with three abstentions, Westport’s Representative Town Meeting (RTM) tonight approved a sense of meeting resolution supporting state and federal bans of assault and semi-automatic rifles, high capacity magazine clips and gun show loopholes.

The RTM votes tonight on the anti-gun sense of the meeting resolution. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

The vote, a symbolic gesture beyond the legislative body’s purview, came after almost two hours of support from state and local officials, as well as members of the public and the RTM. An 86-year-old Westport woman who brought a BB rifle and box of .45-caliber ammunition to the debate to make a statement about the easy accessibility of firearms was arrested and charged with misdemeanor breach of peace.

The vote came despite an emotional plea by the father of an 18-year-old who died in a fall from his university dormitory that RTM members “ask yourselves whether it is worth the exploitation of the death of children to make a political statement.”

RTM member Jack Klinge noted that despite the petition’s symbolic nature, it was “better to light a candle than to curse the darkness” of having weapons meant for the military in the hands of citizens.

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