The board voted 4-1 last week to approve a nonbinding resolution, which includes calls to pass laws banning bump stocks and assault rifles, requiring trigger locks on guns in homes with children and preventing known or suspected terrorists or those convicted of certain violent crimes from purchasing guns.
The vote came after multiple Council Rock North students addressed supervisors. All supported the resolution, and several said recent mass shootings, like that at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, left them afraid to go to school.
Samantha Duckworth, a student who wore a shirt reading “Parkland,” told the board, “In the faces of those that died, I can’t help but see the faces of my classmates and teachers because we really aren’t all that different, except for the fact that they were killed and we weren’t.”
Supervisor Kyle Davis, the board’s lone Republican, also questioned the resolution’s efficacy, and argued that passing it would push “ignorancies (sic) that are out there” about gun safety.
“If your child dying is not a deterrent, I don’t know how a law saying ‘you need a trigger lock’ is going to be a deterrent.”
[You can find more details of the resolution here.]
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