Longmont’s city staff last week posted an incorrect version of a “Firearms Awareness and Safety Day” proclamation that its mayor plans to read Tuesday night, he said Sunday.
The version of the proclamation the city posted as an attachment to the agenda item for Tuesday night’s council meeting “is not the document I approved,” Mayor Brian Bagley said.
Bagley said the proclamation he intends to issue emphasizes the need for responsible gun ownership and the safe storage and use of firearms, a proclamation Bagley said he did not want to stir up renewed arguments between gun control activists and gun ownership rights advocates.
The mayor contacted the Times-Call on Sunday to say the proclamation he okayed was a version of one submitted to him by Second Amendment gun-rights advocates that he edited to remove what he said was potentially “inflammatory” wording.
Bagley said he, as Longmont’s mayor, has the final say on any proclamation he reads at council meetings. He said he thought the original version presented to him “would cause too much potential drama” in the midst of ongoing local and national debates over gun ownership and gun control.
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