No, the “paramilitary training” facility in pawlet that obviously influenced the writing of this bill was already a flagrant zoning violation at the local level in a number of ways. It’s just that zoning enforcement takes a while because due process of law and all that jazz, and Banyai is an uncommonly bad faith actor who is willing to face jail time rather than admit he’s got no case. If the legislature actually cared about this as a real land use issue, they could take a look at the powers delegated to municipalities for zoning enforcement, or the statutorily define process for zoning enforcement cases that wind up in environmental court. In any event, it’s a solution in search of a problem, and the worst kind of performative legislating.

I think it’s pretty obvious that the open carry ban piece, if passed, would never ultimately survive a second amendment challenge, but is also likely in violation of the state constitutional right to bear arms as well. If the piece about “paramilitary training” facilities covers even non-commercial peaceable assembly for the sake of militia training, that seemingly violates the first and second amendments on its face.

Preempting municipal zoning to ban commercial firearms training facilities statewide is probably also not constitutionally survivable, but that’s the piece that seems closest to passing the sniff test out of the litany of problematic clauses in this bill

I didnt think that the by-right 4-plex bill passed, but I’d be thrilled to be wrong

Thank you for being the voice of reason. I’m a damn Yankee myself, but I can’t stand the classic New England smugness about being ignorant of what a vast and diverse part of the country is like.

Even before I went down there for grad school and wound up with a Texan partner (pardner?) I felt that way, but it’s especially eye roll worthy for me now

This is a profoundly ignorant take

Vermont and Rhode Island have traded 49th and 50th place for housing permits for probably a decade now, shits grim

He's literally not even a member of the Republican Party. He successfully won their primary as a protest candidate, without their backing and the VT GOP refused to endorse his candidacy following his win in the primary because he would not agree to caucus with US House Republicans were he to win the general. You don't have to like the guy, but you're going to need a different reason not to.

more like this "study" has a garbage methodology that just rewards wealthier, more rural states. Utah is 4th, and Iowa, Idaho, Alaska, Wyoming, Indiana, Arizona, and North Carolina all rank above New York, California, Illinois, and Colorado.

If you lined these all up by their score and their Cook PVI, average partisan vote share over the past ten elections, or whatever else you wanted to use to represent their ostensible "progressiveness", the R-squared value would be quite low.

curious how you figure that everyone in the Dakotas, Iowa, and Wisconsin is stupid and unkind. That sure sounds like it's just your own personal ignorance

for real. every single commercial break I get on ESPN+ is two Hassan commercials, two Bolduc commercials, without fail.

The only problem is, I live just over the river in Vermont. Even if I liked either one of you troglodytes, I can't help ya

no, that's the US flag

(yes, that's the Vatican flag)

amusingly, that's the exact etymology of the town of Vershire

OP may well actually faint if they had to drive somewhere like Dallas

100%, the reputation of Vermont drivers that I've heard around Western Mass and CT is that Vermonters love going at least 10 under on 91, and are oblivious and unassertive, often to the point of creating a hazard

Literally every state likes to stereotype their neighbors and claim that they're the shittiest drivers and have no common sense. They're all correct, though, because people in general are more inattentive and unsafe behind the wheel than we're willing to admit, it just has nothing to do with your state lol

everybody loves to show off their new straight pipe mod at 3AM every night too

it's one of those old school small walmarts in a strip mall, though. I'd rather get into a shootout at the Hinsdale Walmart for sure, there's more room for activities