Morton Grove, IL, formally repeals handgun ban

[seamusTX]

The town of Morton Grove, Illinois, formally repealed its handgun ban in a 5-1 vote. A grand total of one resident spoke in favor of retaining the ban.

Morton Grove was the first locality in the U.S. to institute a handgun ban in 1981.

One down, many to go.

Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago is "having a cow."

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/mortongrove ... s1.article

- Jim

[anygunanywhere]

Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago is "having a cow."

- Jim

I hope it comes out horns first.

Anygunanywhere

[KC5AV]

I hope it comes out sideways.

[TexasComputerDude]

I hope its a longhorn....

[Commander Cody]

A cow is a cow.

[Target1911]

I hope it comes out with guns a'blazin...

[lrb111]

That's at least two down, of Chicago's suburbs. Wilmette gave up very quickly. Maybe more.
It's less than 6 months until we have a new president. Some of these places are banking on a more friendly Obama regime.

[KaiserB]

Good to hear about Mortorn Grove... however other cities such as Evansville have stated they will not give up their ban. It seems to be a 50/50 shot on cities giving up their gun bans. It is an issue that needs to be addressed in every city in the Chicagoland area.

[BigBlueDodge]

Off topic, but do we have "villages" in the US these days? It makes it sounds like we are a 3rd world country. I thought we had cities, and towns. Where does a "village" fit in.

[Liberty]

Off topic, but do we have "villages" in the US these days? It makes it sounds like we are a 3rd world country. I thought we had cities, and towns. Where does a "village" fit in.

I think a village in Texas is an unincorporated community. it has no city or town government, but might have a water district and/or a volunteer fire department. These communities tend to be more civilized than proper citys.
In New England a village was something quite different. It was usually a part of town that was isolated or had its own charactor. I grew up in in Furnace Village, and lived in Lithuanian Village. Both places were much more civilized than the towns they were a part of.

[KBCraig]

Off topic, but do we have "villages" in the US these days? It makes it sounds like we are a 3rd world country. I thought we had cities, and towns. Where does a "village" fit in.

In other states, particularly the northeastern states, a "town" is more like a small county, where the boundaries were established long ago and have nothing to do with the developed area. And sometimes there is a populated place within a town, that is known by a different name.

In northern New Hampshire, for instance, there's the town of Lancaster, and what we would call the town --the part where the houses and businesses are-- is called the village. The next town north is Northumberland, but there is no village of Northumberland, it's just a rural town (like a small county, remember). And within the town of Northumberland, is the village of Groveton -- like a "town" (as we would think of it) within this other town.

Confusing, I know. You just have to see it to know how it works.

[bauerdj]

In the northeast there are also "Hamlets" which seem to be the same as villages. The breakdown would be a County, then a Town, and finally either a Village or a Hamlet. I think the difference is that a Village is incorporated and has its own police force while a hamlet has little or no seperate government and uses Town or County resources.

There also seems to be a large difference in what the police entities do here as opposed to the Northeast. In the Northeast most policing is a function of a county police dept., the sherrif's dept runs the jails and enforces civil proceedures such as evictions. Constables perform functions such as local code enforcement and are often no armed and not considered peace officers. (An incorporated village would have its own police department performing normal police functions, a Hamlet might have a Code Enforcement Officer or Constable enforcing minor local ordinances or codes)

Dave B.

[flintknapper]

Off topic, but do we have "villages" in the US these days? It makes it sounds like we are a 3rd world country. I thought we had cities, and towns. Where does a "village" fit in.

Without them we wouldn't have the venerable "Village Idiot". So.... there remains a need for them (villages that is).

[jimlongley]

In the northeast there are also "Hamlets" which seem to be the same as villages. The breakdown would be a County, then a Town, and finally either a Village or a Hamlet. I think the difference is that a Village is incorporated and has its own police force while a hamlet has little or no seperate government and uses Town or County resources.

There also seems to be a large difference in what the police entities do here as opposed to the Northeast. In the Northeast most policing is a function of a county police dept., the sherrif's dept runs the jails and enforces civil proceedures such as evictions. Constables perform functions such as local code enforcement and are often no armed and not considered peace officers. (An incorporated village would have its own police department performing normal police functions, a Hamlet might have a Code Enforcement Officer or Constable enforcing minor local ordinances or codes)

Dave B.

I grew up in a hamlet, within a town, with a village adjacent in the same town, in upstate NY.

Our hamlet had no "real" governmental entity beyond the volunteer fire department, code enforcement and such were under the town's aegis although the fire department did wield a lot of political pull.

[BigBlueDodge]

I grew up in a hamlet, within a town, with a village adjacent in the same town, in upstate NY.

My head is spinning....