Boulder AR-15 Ban

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I got an interesting response to my email that I sent to the Boulder City Council

“Hi Dave,

I share your concerns on this ordinance.
If you read the paper this morning, it is stating false information that there were many more supporters of the bill, when in fact, 80 people opposed the bill to only 30 in support of it. It was also not clear, that what we passed just gave us the option to discuss the ordinance being proposed at a later date because it was so late.

My hope, is that if people want this to move forward, they will attempt to get the signatures required to put it on the ballot for people to vote, rather than Council making the decisions.
Thank you for being involved. You are always welcome to email Council at Council@bouldercolorado.gov as well.

Kind regards,
Mirabai Nagle
Boulder City Council “

Yeah, I get the feeling that a couple of the members know they are overstepping and are starting to feel the pressure and are looking for a way to get out of the jam they created and still somehow save face. There are a number of prominent business people and residents that are very much against this and have not come out publicly for fear of public backlash. I have a feeling some people are putting on pressure in other ways. Boulder might be the laughing stock of the country but there are a lot of closet liberal gun nuts here.

And yes, the vote last night just allows them to continue the discussion.

one thing they have to ponder is that the city has 85000 voting age residents and the turn out in the last election was something in the high 80% range and the most votes any council member got was a little over 5000, they do not represent the people here in any way.