{"id":17474,"date":"2016-10-18T09:16:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=17474"},"modified":"2016-10-18T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:16:32","slug":"killion-votes-against-suits-over-local-gun-ordinances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=17474","title":{"rendered":"Killion votes against suits over local gun ordinances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2118\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SenTomKillion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2118\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2118\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SenTomKillion-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Tom Killion (R-9)\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Tom Killion (R-9)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">State Sen. Tom Killion (R-9) Monday\u00a0voted against legislation that would penalize municipalities and taxpayers for enacting ordinances that are more restrictive than laws passed by the General Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Killion said he opposed Senate Bill 1330 because he believes that the legislation encourages lawsuits against municipalities, and would cost taxpayers millions and lead to unnecessary property tax increases.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen a local community is sued and a judgment for damages is ordered by the courts, it is local property owners who will have to foot the bill,\u201d Killion said.\u00a0 \u201cIn addition to taking rights away from municipalities that want to enforce tougher gun laws, this legislation would encourage costly and unnecessary lawsuits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAlmost every day there is another act of gun violence reported in the City of Chester, and we cannot stand in the way of letting individual communities take the action they need to take to keep their communities safe,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The bill would allow a party that believes he or she is affected by stronger local gun ordinances to sue the municipality to cover court costs, legal fees and other damages. Most alarming, it also allows for punitive damages for municipalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Commonwealth has always deferred to our local communities on a wide range of issues, from education to zoning,\u201d Killion said.\u00a0 \u201cPublic safety should be no different \u2013 if communities choose to enact stronger gun laws, that is their right and they should not be punished for doing so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Tom Killion (R-9) Monday\u00a0voted against legislation that would penalize municipalities and taxpayers for enacting ordinances that are more restrictive than laws passed by the General Assembly. Killion said he opposed Senate Bill 1330 because he believes that the legislation encourages lawsuits against municipalities, and would cost taxpayers millions and lead to unnecessary property [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4330,8088,7954],"class_list":["post-17474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gun-laws","tag-local-ordinances","tag-state-sen-tom-killion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17475,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17474\/revisions\/17475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}