Melissa Kane is board chair of Connecticut Against Gun Violence.
It’s an important job — but typical of her long public service.
She’s co-chaired the Downtown Plan Implementation Committe. Beford that, she was a Representative Town Meeting member, and Westport’s 3rd selectwoman.
The other day, we chatted at the Westport Library for an “06880” podcast. Click below to hear more about Melissa’s work with CAGV, and her other efforts in Westport.
There are so many nice things that can be said about Melissa Katz Kane. Instead, I will use this fine interview to make all aware that the newly appointed Attorney General of the United States has commenced an effort within the Justice Department to review and analyze the many laws that exist within and by our states to determine if they comply with the Second Amendment. The goal is to identify those laws which might or could be attacked as unconstitutional. Here is one more act by the Trump Administration that, in the hands of an ideologue, could send a shiver down the backs of all of us who disagree with the interpretation by our Supreme Court of what was the intent and what is the meaning of the Second Amendment.