Recommendation to request City Attorney to draft a resolution in support of President Barack Obama's executive actions to reduce gun violence and make our communities safer.
Thank you. And exciting, please. Communication from Councilwoman Gonzalez. Councilmember Muranga, Councilman Austin. Councilmember Richardson. Recommendation to request the city attorney to draft a resolution in support of President Barack Obama's executive actions to reduce gun violence and make our community safer. Thank you. Councilman Gonzales. Yes. I just want to thank my council colleagues for joining me in this release. Symbolic resolution. I think we had addressed this very briefly during our federal legislative committee. And understanding the lay of the land in our nation at this time. I personally thought it was timely for us to do this. And I also want to thank our police department for joining on board, taking a look at the item and helping us out with the language on that. So I think all involved. Appreciate it. Councilmember Ringo. Thank you, Mary. Now, I also want to thank the police department for their cooperation in reviewing this and making it strong and and palatable to them. And I also, of course, thank Councilwoman Dallas for bringing this forward. And more importantly, I want to thank the president for having the courage to put this on the table. It's long overdue. And we do need some very strong background checks when it comes to the purchasing of weapons. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. I think it's important to note that all of the suggestions posed and the executive actions are already in place here in California, yet they fail to stop incidents such as those that occurred in San Bernardino. We cannot continue to pass more and more gun laws and more and more restrictions on law abiding individuals civil rights. Yet they all. All that it stops is the same law abiding citizens from being able to protect themselves. You are currently not able to buy a gun on the internet and have it shipped to your house without a background check. And therefore, because this item is already exactly what we have, I will not be supporting it this evening. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Well, I'm going to rise in support of this item because I think it's very necessary to raise the consciousness of our residents here in Long Beach, but throughout the country about the the need to reduce gun violence. I think we've been pretty progressive in the city. And in the spirit of that. I think this council getting behind this resolution is the right thing to do. I will remind you that two years ago we had our very first gun buyback program funded by the city council, and it was an item that my arm, Steve Neal and myself brought forward. We also funded a task force to deal with prohibited possessors, using one time funds from our budget to get guns up out of the hands of those who should not have them legally and by court order. And I think we need to do more of that as a council to to deal with the issues we have right here in our city. And so I'm happy to support this. I think this is the right thing to do. And, yes, I'll be in support. Okay. Thank you, Councilman Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Gonzales and all the cosigners for signing on to this. I think what the president is trying to do with certainly the toxic environment in Washington, D.C., to take an executive action. I think he's expressed this time and time again the interest in Congress taking action and seeing that that hasn't happened . He's moved forward on this. So we completely support it. We are. This isn't new. We have support for these reforms in our federal legislative agenda that we voted on today for a number of those. A number of those. And we also have a support for a number of those elements in the state legislative agenda. So this is not new. This goes on to highlight our support for this. So we can say say that, you know, we've explored doing all that we can to help prevent these these ridiculous things from happening in our community. Thank you. That any public comment? I'm sorry on the resolution item. See no public comment. There is a motion and a second please. Members Kastor votes. Motion carries.