Meg Mott: Understanding Second Amendment differences

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Meg Mott, who is a professor of politics at Marlboro College and the town moderator in Putney.
Of the many contentious issues in Vermont, gun regulation is visibly the most divisive. Lawmakers provided separate entrances at last week’s hearing on proposed gun regulations, with signs channeling each side to its designated portal. Even without the traffic signals, the division was marked by team colors. Opponents of the bills arrived wearing blaze o