Recommendation to adopt resolution in support of President Obama's Executive Actions to reduce gun violence.
Next item. Item 20. Communication from City Attorney. Recommendation to adopt resolution in support of President Obama's Executive Actions to reduce gun violence. There's a motion in a second attorney public comment on this. Seeing none of Mr. Good here. I obviously support that. I don't care who is supporting it, who's putting it forward. I think it makes absolute sense and I would suggest some amendments here locally to something. And I realize they don't have the authority that I would suggest to you make the recommendations to the OR both to the county and to the state. Let's begin with, as I mentioned last week. Increasing the penalty for car theft by ten years in prison and a $10,000 by a bicycle theft. Ten years in prison. Ten years in. And then ten years. Revoking of a license. Of. And then wearing a T-shirt for ten years saying they are a loser. I'm a firm believer in prisons, period. And given the trajectory that we're on, which, as I mentioned before, within 40 years will have US City of Long Beach will be like a third rate city that one would find today in Guatemala or Honduras. I mean, that's the that's the trajectory we are on now. And no power on earth is going to stop that. And all you have to do is check the pop out rates of kids, period, unless we want to adopt something that is now being adopted in Africa. And a lot of people didn't realize and I did not realize until I started getting inside of it and read the scientific articles why the African elephant population is being dramatically reduced and has nothing to do with poachers. The female elephant. Can only give birth the hormonal dynamics within that animal every four years. So unless we want to attack it like we're attacking cancer. And I would suggest maybe what we might want to do is develop a paradigm. Or develop a hormone that we can provide to people where instead of popping out a kid every 24 months. It will be every 48 months and you'll be able to control better the crime. And this is what we're talking about here in terms of gun violence and gun violence. You just can't ignore it and hope it will go away because it's not going to go away. But I will begin also, as I said, with stiffer penalties for two of our biggest problems theft of bicycles and theft of automobiles $10,000 fine, ten years in prison. It's great employment and it's great construction opportunities. Thank you. Any other public comment on this item? Councilwoman Gonzalez Oh, I just wanted to say thank you. I know the last meeting, it kind of was at the end of the meeting. So I just want to send my appreciation to the council for staying committed to this. I know this is a symbolic measure, but it's definitely something that we need to take a stand on here in Long Beach. We have a lot of gun violence going on in our streets and our PD. They do an amazing job. Our fire department does an amazing job. But we just need to stay committed to this. So thank you. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Members, please go and cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Next item, actually, that that. Concludes. That is the last item. Okay. Where we have our second public comment period, if there's anyone that wants to speak that hasn't spoken from the council. Please come forward.