That really surprises me. Guntersville is not located in the extremely conservative South Alabama but it is still in a very conservative region. Maybe this Mayor will get a reality check next election.
Guntersville is a magnet for upper income folks from Huntsville. Probably over the past decade....a high number of company executives who were forced into moving to Huntsville...actually bought homes in the Guntersville area. So, there’s probably 1k residents there...who aren’t from the region, or from any other Alabama region.
They start to worry about oddball things....like what happens after a tornado. And they really don’t want friends or neighbors driving around with weapons. I would imagine that this talk will last a week or two, and most of the regular voters will laugh so much about this....that the whole thing will be withdrawn and forgotten quickly.