https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I._Rotberg
Posted on 01/06/2016 6:16:45 AM PST by pabianice
**GOAL Alert**
Jan 4, 2016 3:00 PM update:
Robert Rotberg, a citizen of the town of Lexington has initiated an attack on the Second Amendment. Robert is currently working to include an article on the next town warrant which will enact an outright ban on many types of commonly owned firearms and magazines. This proposal must be stopped.
GOAL has learned that Mr. Rotberg's proposal will be on the town meeting warrant. The annual town meeting is scheduled for March 21, 2016 at 7:30 PM in the Carey Memorial Building, 1605 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA 02420.
Lexington residents need to contact their town meeting members and urge them not to support Mr. Rotberg's article.
If you are a resident of the town of Lexington please call them right now and let them know that you do not want any article included on the town meeting warrant, which would attack many of your rights.
Pertinent info for the selectmen:
If this were to be passed how would it be enacted?
Is the town police department going to seize property from town residents? Are they prepared to do that?
If this were passed it will be very expensive for the town to defend in court. Is the town of Lexington willing to spend tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees?
The proposal is an outright attack on our Second Amendment being enacted by a citizen, or group of citizens, influenced by false data and anti rights propaganda. It will do nothing to prevent crime.
"Assault Weapon" is a term made up by a gun prohibitionist who aspired to objectify certain semi automatic firearms in order to make it easier to ban them. Reality shows that they are no different than any other semi automatic firearm and that an outright ban on these firearms and magazines would include hundreds if not thousands of firearms which are currently legally owned by Lexington residents, none of which have ever been involved in any sort of crime.
This proposal is a solution to a problem that does not exist.
The board of selectmen can be reached at 781-698-4580
Here is the info published online by Robert:
Dear Fellow Town Meeting Members and other Concerned Citizens:
For all of the obvious reasons, and because Lexington has first mover advantage and responsibilities, I have submitted a Citizen’s Article to the Warrant to regulate the manufacture, sale, and possession of assault weapons and large-capacity gun magazines within the Town of Lexington. I hope that it will have your support now, and when the article comes before Town Meeting in March.
The proposed legislation will be modeled strictly on an ordinance enacted by Highland Park, IL (a suburb of Chicago) in 2013, approved in a Federal district court there, and by the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. On Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Day, the U. S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, implicitly suggesting that local town and city bans on large scale weaponry do not impinge on Second Amendment rights under the U. S. Constitution, and are permissible despite its ruling in Miller in 2014. The U.S. has a long tradition of regulating weapons at the local level – think Dodge City, Kansas, and Tombstone, Ariz., not to mention Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.
The New York Times reported that the Supreme Court’s welcome inaction in the Highland Park case was the seventieth time since 2008 that the Court has declined to consider a challenge to state or local gun regulation. “This creates a big opportunity,†it said, “for Americans to put pressure on their…local leaders.â€
As Nancy Rotering, Mayor of Highland Park and candidate for Congress wrote recently, the Supreme Court’s decision encourages “other cities and villages across the nation to follow our lead and pursue assault weapons without the threat of legal action under the Second Amendment of the U. S. Constitution.â€Ã‚ She also wrote: “One piece of legislation is not going to prevent every gun violence tragedy, but with courageous leadership, we can take steps to protect American lives.†I hope that the passage of the proposed amended by-law in Lexington will save Lexington lives and inspire other cities and towns within the Commonwealth to follow suit in this practical and sensible matter.
My proposed amendment to Chapter 97 of the Code of Lexington (Public Conduct) would in no way affect ordinary gun or hand-gun ownership in Lexington. It would, however, prohibit the possession within town limits of assault weapons – semiautomatic rifles that have the capacity to accept large capacity magazines. (The proposed article would specify in great detail exactly what kinds of weapons and magazines were covered.) The Highland Park legislation enumerates the brands outlawed. Large capacity magazines are defined as holding ten or more rounds.
Assault weapons do not include antique weapons. Citizens of the town would still be able to bear arms, just not weapons of mass murder.
I have consulted with the Selectmen, the Town Manager (and Town Counsel), the Moderator, and the Chief of Police. Everyone has been very helpful.
I will welcome your comments, criticisms, suggestions for improvement, and so on, but, please as few NRA rants as possible. This proposal will, I hope, attract widespread support from TM voters and from citizens of the Town. It is the least we can do to try to limit harm.
Click here to view the webpage with published info.
I wonder if the tyrant wannabe even noticed the irony.
And being perpetrated in the town where those British attempted to do something very similar to what this idiot is attempting today, and were forcibly prevented from doing so by freedom-loving men eager to throw off the bonds of tyranny. If only this guy were to meet similar resistance.
How far the “Cradle of Liberty” has fallen.
“Is the town police department going to seize property from town residents? Are they prepared to do that? “
Molon labe. How much is Lexington prepared to spend on body armor for their cops?
Oh how the mighty have fallen...
In the same town.
Government confiscation of weapons.
So sad to see those so ignorant of their own history.
I’m sure these good folks would approve of flint lock muskets still...I mean, they were OK 240 years ago.
Lot of Tories lived in MA back then. Seems their bloodline continues and they still bow to the king.
Robert Rotberg is a lying scumbag.
The Minutemen must be spinning in their graves.
Also, the FBI statistics show that more people die from being attacked with fists, feet, hammers or knives every year than are killed by so-called assault weapons, aka semi-automatic rifles.
“Do not fire on them unless they fire first, but if they want a war, let it begin here.”
— American Captain Parker - Battle of Lexington
Beat me to it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I._Rotberg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I._Rotberg
The Muslims are coming, the Muslims are coming...
Really, of all the Town’s in America to do this.
I would assume that the town is ready and willing to accept quite a few of the head-chopping “refugees” that will soon darken our shores too.
Sarcasm brought to you by Nigels’ Neck Armor Emporium.
:-)
Once a liberal is schooled (schooled but not educated) beyond a certain level they no longer consider themselves
as lowly patriots or common, everyday Americans.
They become citizens of the world - so much better and smarter than we lowly commoners.....
How fortunate we are that some are willing to reach down from their lofty existence and tell us how we should live.
/s
“Once a liberal is schooled ...”
Extended discussion of that phenomenon here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3377829/posts
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