Prior Tiverton resolution supporting Second Amendment set for repeal
Marcia Pobzeznik
Daily News correspondent
TIVERTON A resolution passed by a prior Town Council supporting the Second Amendment and opposing the infringement on the right to bear arms has “faded into the sunset,” because there is now a new council, according to the Town Solicitor Michael Marcello, but the current council plans to grant a request by two residents to repeal it.
The resolution that was initially introduced by Justin Katz in May 2019 declaring Tiverton a Second Amendment Sanctuary Town, was done because state government “has a tendency to overstep its bounds,” said Katz, a councilman at the time, adding that the Second Amendment “is uniquely threatened by the politics of our day.” The first vote on the resolution failed 3-4, but it was tweaked and re-voted a week later with the Sanctuary Town removed, and passed 4-3 with then council President Robert Coulter, Katz, Nancy Driggs and Don