| I received some reports on the meeting of February 5, 2007 of the Dodge City Commission. Terry Lee was of the opinion “Let’s not fix this unless it is broken.” Jim Lembright and Rick Sowers were just plain anti-gun, period. Jim Sherer just wanted to know how many voters could be made upset with his vote. (Jim: private message: a lot more then 110 voters. ) Kent Smoll was open minded.
I can hear Jim Lembright and/or Rick Sowers already.
“Yes, I hear all the data. Yes, I know what the research is saying, but you know what, this makes me feel safer”
The problem with Dodge City and Ford County is that our elected officals make a lot of decisions on what makes them feel safer, whether it does make them safer or not. The 3 minute decision I like to call this. What they should be doing is basing their decisions on what’s right and what we all know will make our city/county safer based on facts, not feelings.
The facts do not support additional laws or regulations beyond the state’s requirements. All you will hear our elected officals say is “ I support this or I feel this way.” I suppose that is why Judges are Judges (decide on the established facts and law ) and elected commissioners decide on their feelings. The good news is that in this card game a judge trumps a City Commission.
Our City Commission has a "Study session" on this this Monday night. Will they look at facts and research or will this be a feeling session? God help us all.  |