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19 not conscientious. Please don’t have people who are not conversant in land measurement or the technical aspects of firearms setting technical standards. The guts of what we are trying to do is contain the projectile so that it doesn’t get onto other people’s property. Ashley DeSena –In late February/early March I took it upon myself, with other citizens of Orange County, to circulate a petition that says if we have to have an additional ordinance then we would like it to be modeled on the Lenoir County ordinance. I would like to submit the petition, all the signatures we have collected on it, and an attachment that is an edited version of the Lenoir County ordinance in which I have substituted “Orange” for “Lenoir” to show people what the ordinance would look like here. We collected hundreds of signatures in a week, without that much effort and so quickly that I did not even get my husband’s signature; we could have gotten more. A few hundred if not several hundred people who could not be here tonight know of and are in favor of this type of ordinance, which tries to address all the public safety issues. The only thing I did not see in the Lenoir County ordinance that Committee members have said they are concerned about is intoxicated shooting. There might be language already in here that could be interpreted to address that, but I think it would be perfectly reasonable if you want to work that into the ordinance. Linda Galloway –Asked why “reckless endangerment” would not be a sufficient existing principle to use to enforce against intoxicated shooting. If someone is on their own property but acting in a way that would endanger someone off of their property then why would that not be enough for a deputy to arrest them? I have problems with drunks in our area, too. Also, lots of people on social media are concerned about how much the facilitator is being paid. The amount --$125/hour – saddens me. We have soldiersin Afghanistan;I have friends who are fighting there. I’m blown away that this Committee is willing to sit here for two and a half hours, and saddened that all you allthink that that is acceptable. I’m very disappointed in the County for doing this.Shealso asked Commissioner McKee to remindCommittee members that when they were picked to serve on the Committee they were obligated to attend every meeting. Lindsay Tapp–This looks like more of a noise problem than it is a gun problem. It’s already illegal to shoot on someone else’s property without their permission. If the projectile does not leave your property then it is not a safety problem, it is only a noise problem. What difference does it make if the noise comes from a gun, a chain saw, or a boom box? Seems to me we should be looking at this like it’s a noise problem, not a gun problem.