Ellwood City Ledger – Code enforcement officers no longer carrying guns
When the gun policy was passed Aug. 19, city Administrator Steve Johnson said residents sometimes react badly when ordered to trim bushes or remove junk from their property.
“Some people get pretty irate,” he told The Times. “They think because it’s their property, they can do anything they want.”
On Tuesday, the motion to rescind the gun policy was unanimously approved without discussion, as was the policy
to approve pepper spray.
I point out this article because apparently it was though that telling people to clean up their yards was too dangerous to do unarmed. Is delivering an order to trim your bushes more dangerous than delivering a pizza? Somebody though that these government employees shouldn’t face that uncertainty unarmed. I don’t like to see people disarmed, but I also don’t like the state dolling out special privileges to it’s functionaries that are denied to it’s population.
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