I like this guy's attitude...if it happened it MN it would make all the newscasts.
An Oregon resident, who is also a business owner and father, attended the Ashland City Council’s regular meeting on Feb. 4 only to relentlessly mock the governing body over its “knee-jerk” gun control efforts. The members had no choice but to listen.
At first, it wasn’t entirely obvious that the Ashland resident, who identified himself as Johnny Bolton, was satirizing the issue of gun control. However, it became clear rather quickly.
“I’d like to introduce a new public safety concern group: Citizens for a Really Safe Ashland,” Bolton began.
He went on to pitch some of the group’s “reasonable” and “common sense” measures to improve public safety.
“Citizens for a Really Safe Ashland want to capitalize on the desire to act in a timely manner — or even in a knee-jerk, expedited manner — to introduce a comprehensive public safety ordinance that, whilst perhaps not addressing any genuine or legitimate issues, does serve to promote a divisive and partisan agenda ” Bolton said.
“Why, we ask, must we settle for merely copying other municipalities’ poorly thought out, ineffective and unenforceable ordinances when we can craft our own?” he asked.
Bolton mockingly lectured the city council on why European countries are “lightyears” ahead of the U.S. in terms of public safety, citing the “highly-esteemed British Medical Journal.”
“And I kid you not,” he continued. “[The British Medical Journal] proposes banning all kitchen knives over 4 inches long, because the people would be safer.”
And still, he wasn’t done: “Our proposed ordinance, currently being hastily drafted by our team, will seek to a.) regulate the public visibility of and b.) seek to punish those that allow minors access to the following potentially dangerous, often unfamiliar, and in some instances, downright scary items: Knives, chainsaws, power tools, hammers, ladders, bath tubs, car keys, alcohol, prescription and nonprescription medication.”
Mayor John Stromberg, who presides over the council meetings, did not look amused by this point.
Frumpy Council President:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02 ... l-efforts/
