Alaska Borough Urges Residents to Get Ammo and Arm Themselves
An Alaskan regional government is urging its residents to be armed and ready.
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly voted Tuesday to encourage its people to have guns and ammunition, linking the need to rely on the Second Amendment to an increase in crime and a dearth of state troopers, according to Alaska Public Radio.
Assembly member Ron Bernier said the resolution was presented to address crime issues, particularly in outlying communities.
The sprawling borough is located northeast of Anchorage.
Last year, state Department of Public Safety Commissioner James Cockrell indicated that recruiting troopers was an issue, and at the time, there were 11 vacancies in the patrol detachment covering the region.
