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WESTFORD (CBS) – A thunderous round of applause and a standing ovation greeted the news Wednesday night that a proposed town bylaw to restrict some assault weapons was going to be officially withdrawn.
The overwhelming majority of the close to 400 people who packed a special meeting of the Westford Board of Selectmen opposed the idea.
The man who originally proposed it told the crowd the debate had not gone as he had hoped.
Vice Chairman of the Board of Selectmen Robert Jeffries said, “This was meant to be a discussion within the town of Westford, a community discussion that’s gotten way, way beyond that. We’re not really getting the discussion we want.”
After the meeting, Jeffries added that he had hoped he and his town would not be alone in an effort to restrict assault weapons and high-capacity firearms from the town.
“I thought there would be a [negative] reaction,” Jeffries said. “But I also thought maybe some other towns in Massachusetts might have also tried something similar and none of them did. So it left us isolated as the only ones.”
Westford residents at the meeting felt a sense of relief.
Originally posted by F4guy
reply to post by Darkphoenix77
Wow! A whole 400 people, out of the 22,000 who live in Westford. That's not what you would call a huge majority of the citizens.
Originally posted by snarky412
reply to post by Darkphoenix77
I hate the way these legislatures think that they know what the People want.
They claim the "people" want this or that...
When the reality is the people just want them to leave their rights alone and quite interfering just to push an agenda that the majority don't believe in.
And just because they poll 2500 New Yorkers doesn't mean that they speak for me or any one else & to base an opinion on those few when our country's population is over 315 million is ridiculous.
No offense to NY but I'm sick of them being the ones that get polled and then the gov. says 'the people have spoken'....................NOT
Originally posted by F4guy
reply to post by Darkphoenix77
Wow! A whole 400 people, out of the 22,000 who live in Westford. That's not what you would call a huge majority of the citizens.
Originally posted by snarky412
Originally posted by F4guy
reply to post by Darkphoenix77
Wow! A whole 400 people, out of the 22,000 who live in Westford. That's not what you would call a huge majority of the citizens.
Well, 400 is a start......
Maybe the City Council didn't want to take a chance that more people would start showing up who were against their firearms proposal.
There's no telling how many letters/e-mails/ phone calls that they may have also received that were against it.