I enjoyed the beautiful sunset as I walked Linden Ave in Branford Monday night. I knocked on a screen door and waved to the couple sitting reading in the front room. William greeted me with a smile and a simple “Yes?” I introduced myself and asked if he was ready for a senator to stand up for him. Indeed he was!
He shared a disappointing experience he had with the current Senator. William had reached out to Senator Meyer with serious concerns about a gun bill that was being presented. The bill would find gun owners criminally liable if they did not report a stolen gun within 72 hours. William, a hunter reached out to Senator Meyer in opposition to the bill, he felt it was an unreasonable bill and expressed why. Much to Williams’s disappointment Senator Meyer voted yes, at which time he reached out once again. He went on to explain to Senator Meyer again, that he was away from his home for extended periods of time, making it impossible for him to know if a gun had been stolen within 72 hours. "Surely Senator Meyer," he said "you had thought this through!" William received a disappointing answer, Senator Meyer hadn’t thought about it that way.
Our second amendment states “the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” Your rights William, have been infringed. Something I strongly disagree with. I understand that gun violence, especially with the massacre at Hartford Distributors in such recent memory is a sensitive issue. Still there is a common sense approach needed in how we adopt bills and more importantly how we think them through.
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